Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Charlotte RamplingSarah Morton
- Ludivine SagnierJulie
- Charles DanceJohn Bosload
- Marc FayolleMarcel
- Jean-Marie LamourFranck
- Mireille MosséMarcel's Daughter
- Michel FauFirst Man
- Jean-Claude LecasSecond Man
- Émilie Gavois-KahnWaitress at Cafe
- Erarde ForestaliOld Man
Recommendations
- 90
Dallas Observer
A delicious little thriller about an uptight, ill-humored English mystery writer who becomes enmeshed in murder, Swimming Pool is at once comical, contrary, resourceful and ambiguous. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The narrative logic of Swimming Pool slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer heat and goose bumps. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Immersed here in both the fair, dreamy air and chilly, deeper waters, Rampling and Sagnier make Swimming Pool a fine sunlit noir, oozing sensuality and menace. - 75
ReelViews
While not stunningly original, is fresh and compelling enough to hold the viewer's attention through its entire running length. - 75
Premiere
It’s worth seeing twice just for the privilege of watching Rampling and Sagnier match each other stroke for stroke. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
But the ending, at once ambiguous and obvious, is a letdown -- a frustratingly literal-minded, or literary-minded, conceit. - 70
Village Voice
Less a thriller than a comedy, and a formulaic one at that, predicated on an amusing but bizarrely simplistic clash of personalities and cultures. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Tricky thriller relies on its smoothly unrippled surface, leisurely pacing and slightly awkward performances to create a false sense of security that sets up viewers for a shock when it takes an abrupt turn into Patricia Highsmith territory.
