françois ozon revisit the pairing of a young woman with an old one of his brilliant and haunt regarde la mer ( 1997 ) n a whimsical parody of a serial detective writer and charlotte rampling a sarah and an agathe christi like authoress and you know and in whose page the body pile up like cordwood but no one be really hurt and attempt to find lost inspiration for yet another iteration . her interlude in and where else and the south of france and be interrupt by a brash and slightly overripe nymphet and ludivine sagnier a julie and daughter of sarah publisher and owner of the villa and and the prim and discipline sarah . who live in london with her father and engage in a intergeneration game of dare and with julie subtly draw sarah and lull by the warmth and french cuisine and into activity she normally would eschew . sarah muse be rouse and she happily peck away on her laptop and expand her scope with the journal she pinch from julie knapsack . at this point the plot become so far fetched i begin to believe we have enter the reality of sarah incipient novel . but this be more claire denis than ozon and who seem to adhere to a linear narrative in his film and so the whimsy theory take hold . view in that light and the film be entertain .