Friday, November 05, 2004

Swimming Pool (DVD movie review)

Swimming Pool, starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. The young actress Sagnier is the chief attraction in this Hitchcock-esque tale about a writer (Rampling) who is loaned a French country house by her publisher so that she can get away from England and get some writing done. Soon Sagnier, as the publisher's daughter, shows up and events take off on an ever-escalating binge of sex and, eventually violence. But what is real, and what is in the writer's imagination? We don't find out until the final scene. Pay close attention. Grade: A-

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