Swimming Pool is a perfectly good summer movie -- but here's hoping for something even bolder and more decisive from Ozon next time.

| May 27, 2022

Taut, charged, and haunting.

| May 27, 2022

A classy, frothy little thriller which isn't intended to be taken too much at face value as any kind of rigorous treatise on writing or the idea of the unreliable narrator.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 19, 2013

Confusing thriller is absolutely NOT for kids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2011

This is a very well directed with a good story, great characters, and involving engrossing performances from Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier.

| Apr 29, 2009

Rampling and Ozon clearly enjoy working together. Rampling relishes psychologically complex roles. Ozon respects his leading ladies enough to give them challenges.

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Charlotte Rampling is engaging in this intriguing little whodunit that seems more intent on exposing internal paranoia than it does on real world murder.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 8, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2005

| Original Score: 78/100 | May 13, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2005

... sensual and enigmatic

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 29, 2005

Tiene que ver con eso de la ficcin y de ser espectadores, y hasta qu punto creemos lo que se ve en la pantalla como una realidad y no como el antojo de un director de cine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2004

| Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 7, 2004

[An] interesting character study of the two women [portrayed].

| Aug 7, 2004

| Original Score: C | Aug 7, 2004

Although copious amounts of French nudity constitutes, to some degree, its own reward, Swimming Pool is marred by stupor and a fake-as-Lee-Press-On-Nails coda.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2004