Rampling credits François Ozon with drawing her back to film in the 2000s, a period when she came to terms with the death of her elder sister Sarah who, after giving birth prematurely in 1966, died by suicide at 23. "I thought that after such a long time of not letting her be with me," she told "The Guardian", "I would like to bring her back into my life." The character she played in Ozon's "Swimming Pool" (2003), Sarah Morton, was named in her sister's honour.