Swimming Pool
(2003)
★ 6.5 IMDb · 814 votes
Year: 2003
Runtime: 102 мин
Country: France, United Kingdom
Director: Франсуа Озон
Cast: Шарлотта Рэмплинг, Людивин Санье, Чарльз Дэнс, Marc Fayolle, Jean-Marie Lamour, Mireille Mossé, Мишель Фо, Jean-Claude Lecas, Эмили Гавуа-Кан, Erarde Forestali
Plot
A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.
In London, the successful and weird middle-aged writer of crime and mystery novels Sarah Morton is passing through a phase of lack of inspiration. Her publisher John Bosload invites her to spend some summertime days in his house in a small town in France, where there is inclusive a swimming pool. He also suggests her to make the experience of writing about a different theme to break her block. Sarah accepts the invitation and travels to the wonderful and lonely place. A few days later, she starts writing again, but her quiet rest is shaken with the unexpected arrival of Julie, the sexy daughter of John. From that moment on, reality and dream blend in Sarah's world.