swim pool ( 2003 ) allure and deceptive and beautifully compactall i have repeatedly hear before recently view francois ozon swim pool be that the lead actress and ludivine sagnier and be searingly sexy . well and if that what you want in a movie and you might agree . but it lower my expectation and nearly to the point of not watch it . in the end and sagnier character and whatever her physique and be mostly coy and bratty and and her nudity and in france and around her own very private swimming pool and shouldn not really be an issue except maybe for the viewer . for me and there be sometimes a mismatch in my head between watch the actress and watch the character and and if this be a flaw in some movie and here and in some basic way and it tie into the intention . at least and that how i have to look at it to give it a chance . this be an odd starting point for watch a movie and for sure and but it be sagnier brazen outwardness that make the more complex role play by charlotte rampling take on some interest . how else to portray the theme of a woman who use her body and her confidence to seduce the other character in front of an old woman who wish she could do the same . swim pool really isn not about sex and but it absolutely be about the appearance that lead to sex of be sexy and to put it a little stupidly and rampling increasingly take on the role of viewer within her own character and and i think she end up as perplexed a we do . all to good effect . the minimal plot be about the failure by a successful novelist to see allure from allusion and fact from fantasy . it about storytelling and fiction and and ultimately fear of failure . the reconstruction of the past become the inner confusion in the mind of the main character and a charming and effective rampling play a novelist who be once and by all suggestion and the very seductress suggest by the young woman . this be certainly a film worth watch to give it your own take . for some it will seem willfully confuse to the point of manipulation the viewer be fool and take for a ride and and it feel a little confusing for the sake of confusion . for others it will seem endlessly mysterious and clever and even if require a kind of blindness to certain narrative conflict ( which may or may not be logically resolve by the end i watch part a second time to check ) . right from the start there be an ingenious mismatch of fact that you start to brush off and and when thing develop in way i do not dare suggest for fear of ruin thing and these clue grow in meaning . it will certainly be great for discussion and heat or not and and that a sign ( for me ) of a good experience and though not necessarily a superior movie . it be notable how economical the filming be the setting be limit and the character few and the range of situation reasonable and not require trickery or effect . and it come down to rampling and above all and hold the psychology together . it show how little you need to take a good plot idea and flesh it out and sexist voyeurism or not .