2003 · crime · thriller
Swimming Pool
Directed by François Ozon1h 42m2003
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.
Our read: Swimming Pool (2003) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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“You want sun-soaked French unease where fiction, desire, and reality blur.”
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