Swimming Pool

Offers an inside-out twist on TV’s Murder She Wrote.

The tension is never crushing, as it would be in an American job. Instead, it grows by increments, until you realize the movie, in its quiet way, h...

Swimming Pool is a lark of a thriller, and a mesmerizing one at that.

Clever and unhurried mystery.

Charlotte Rampling is the best reason, though far from the only one, to see Swimming Pool, a mesmerizing mystery, plus a wonderfully sensuous...

Sensuous and deceptive.

Whether through manipulation or skilled filmmaking, Swimming Pool mesmerizes long after the movie is over.

Less a thriller than a comedy, and a formulaic one at that, predicated on an amusing but bizarrely simplistic clash of personalities and...

Very much a genre picture, relying on notions of suspense, surprise, and comeuppance. Indeed, at the center of this movie is a question o...

But the ending, at once ambiguous and obvious, is a letdown -- a frustratingly literal-minded, or literary-minded, conceit.

In its own slightly disturbing way, this psychological thriller serves as an absorbing diversion without sapping brain cells – almost the perf...

With a little sex, some mystery, a little sex, an appealing title and a little sex, France’s Swimming Pool has what it takes to bec...

Until the movie gets lost in its ultimately convoluted conceit, however, it’s a superb modulation of menace, tension, mystery and erotic...

Shimmering with eroticism and simmering with the tension of unfamiliarity – we never know, right up to the flourish of its end, quite where th...

With a little sex, some mystery, a little sex, an appealing title and a little sex, France’s Swimming Pool has what it takes to bec...

Swimming Pool returns Ozon to the psychological complexities of "Under The Sand" and his early mini-feature "See The Sea," and he again proves hims...

While not stunningly original, is fresh and compelling enough to hold the viewer’s attention through its entire running length.

Occasionally falters in its symbolism and storytelling, but still unnerves because we’re never quite sure of our bearings, or whose "reality...

Rampling is at the top of her game here.

A delicious little thriller about an uptight, ill-humored English mystery writer who becomes enmeshed in murder, Swimming Pool is at once comical...

It’s Sagnier, a young Bardot, who lifts the movie, and Rampling, 58, who gives it nuance, not to mention a nude scene that shows off a b...

However elegant and feral the film appears on the surface, it’s constantly betrayed by Ozon’s cultural reductivism.

It’s worth seeing twice just for the privilege of watching Rampling and Sagnier match each other stroke for stroke.

Whether the movie leaves you confused or angry, you will be stimulated to long discussion afterward. How often does that happen these days?

Ultimately, Swimming Pool belongs to Ozon, and while incorporating a carefully measured, quietly menacing style that summons up vintage Hitchc...

Swimming Pool is more an exquisite art object than an involving movie. So be it.

Ozon misses some chances with Sarah, but Rampling doesn’t skip a beat. Freed from the burden of likability, the actress pushes the chara...

After it is over, you will want to go back and think things through again, and I can help you by suggesting there is one, and only one, interp...

[Ozon] treats his actresses like ruined objets d’art, fallen older goddesses (or corruptible youthful ones) who are just grist for his pop cu...

The film takes place half in English, half in French. The chilly, responsibility-laden world of British society contrasts with the sunny, relaxed q...

Simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism. Whose psychology, and w...

The narrative logic of Swimming Pool slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer he...

Immersed here in both the fair, dreamy air and chilly, deeper waters, Rampling and Sagnier make Swimming Pool a fine sunlit noir, oozing sensu...

Tricky thriller relies on its smoothly unrippled surface, leisurely pacing and slightly awkward performances to create a false sense of security th...

Working predominantly in English for the first time, the French director has crafted an absorbing tale about the merging of fiction with reality, p...

Take a dip – the water’s fine.

Clever and exceedingly well-acted.

As atypical a summer film as they come -– no explosions, no car chases, no Arnold -– but immensely more pleasing than films with all...

Unfortunately, after the well-honed psychological melodrama of its first half, this wanders off into the metaphysical territory of Ingmar Bergman&r...