swim pool be a wonderfully put together and cleverly execute little film that know a hell of a lot more than it initially let on . it a film all about perspective while about how we be present with a text and how character within the text see the world around them and how the world around them can be re form and manipulate in certain way it a slow burning and thrilling and quite sexy filtering of a reality through a protagonist sub conscience . the film be about author and creative writer and creative mind and the place they go when in need of a new idea or story . in swim pool and writer or director françois ozon create a physical space for this lead in this predicament and but play with u and this location to give u something quite special . the lead be sarah morton ( rampling ) and a successful author in the crime or detective genre who be have trouble come up with an idea for her next novel . in order to clear her head and gain inspiration and she be transport to the south of france in the form of bos john bosload ( dance ) large and seclude holiday home . but there a hitch and and that be that john young and fast and loose daughter name julie ( sagnier ) frequent it rather often thus cause friction and disagreement and general strife . when we first meet what we later find out to be a hugely successful author with many adore fan and numerously successful book and there be a deliberately anti climatic sense about the character . she inhabit a very public and very familiar setting in an underground tube train and but shuns attention and dismisses claim from one passenger she be the successful author she be accuse of be . i suppose this insert an opinion into the audience of a certain aura of loneliness or a want to be cut off from most people in rampling character and and and give the film be about the want to be on one own a they collect their thought while enables u to identify with sarah before her trip to france . it also allow u to identify the change she go through when put up against her opposite in julie and and how forced interaction with this type of person force a confrontation with typical feeling and emotion . initially and london be shoot in the manner you might expect from a frenchman and what with shot of big ben and the london eye and the house of parliment but i think the inclusion of these thing be more about get across the sense of the familiar while of the everyday and and ultimately and of the mundane . this be clash with the manner in which ozon shoot france and a this wonderfully warm and calm and colourful rural patch of land in which sarah will spend her time . but the jump and again and be substantial enough in the sense this new and strange place sarah be inhabit be not only her physical place of rest but act a an enclave within her mind while a place in which idea and fantasy be allow to cook up and play out . the character of julie act a an interesting but ever so vital piece to the text . the film feigns a if it be a battle of young vs. old while of tradition vs. new wave or any other such contemporary term you might like to apply to julie . one be a lot young and more energetic and very much enjoys company and specifically of the male variety and specifically for the length of a single evening . sarah can only look on in a very mixed and but very well put across via rampling and sense of confusion and despair and disgust . onto sarah look in the film and something ozon pay specific attention to when julie be engage in what make her what she be . there be a point and early on and in which julie swim naked but the film do not offer a reaction shot on sarah behalf thus defuse any gaze . later on and when she make love to one of a few random men she find during her night out and sarah can not hep but become interested and observe in the same composition before late still and there actually be a reaction shot from sarah and during another sex act in the house swim pool from which the title derive . the event could have two implication and but go into specific would spoil the piece . needless to say and it may be a come to term with one identity but additionally a sort of perverted escalation a sarah let loose her mind and envisage fantasy a her writer block be lift . the film progress into a final act that genuinely catch me unawares and specifically due to the way in which it branch out into a murder plot and something that sarah herself be use to write so successfully and only this time we do not see thing play out from a detective point of view . swim pool be very articulate in it approach and give u this somewhat downbeat lead and have them undergo an odyssey that might not quite be reality a we know it but almost certainly play out on some level and psychological or physical otherwise .