Swimming Pool-elegant in suspense

Willow 2022-05-27 15:05:28

The last scene was a little deliberately redundant, and speculation and hints were enough to end before. Isn’t it a pity if the drunk honey girl with closed eyes by the pool is just an illusion?
Suspense is emerging, but the process is calm and enjoyable. A movie that belongs to two women is calmly narrated in mystery, such as the process of rolling up a curtain above a pool of water.
It may only be a matter of time before François Ozon becomes a master. Or maybe he would rather always be a ghost outside the standard.

Regarding two women and a murder, it appeared in [Kanhai] in 1997. The 52-minute short film is really straightforward and blunt, and I can't say that there is no aftertaste, but what I feel is just the shudder caused by an uncaused carnage.
A female novelist who is addicted to bloody eroticism, a young girl who seeks pleasure every night. [Swimming pool] The topic of eroticism must be entangled. Charlotte Rampling's expression is really talkative, it's hard to say whether the disdainful expression when she first witnessed the girl's debauchery contained a humble sense of identity. Julie is an ambiguous inspiration. When Sarah created a folder belonging to the girl on the screen, she got out of the bottleneck like a treasure. When she wakes up, the girl says: I killed him. I think it's for your book. She is no longer the only perpetrator of the story.
Regarding the illusion, I do not choose to believe it completely. The story is not all told from Sarah's perspective. The suspense created by Ozon is not enough to overthrow everything. The ambiguous tolerance between the two women born by the hostility is what he carves. For example, Sarah, who passed by with a strange girl in the end but stared at her with a smile for a long time, even if it was Julie who had never met before, even if everything that happened did not exist, it was no longer important to us.

"Many people say that I am willing to portray women, and this phenomenon may have occurred in the past movies. I did not deliberately shoot like this, and I want to say that women change more than men. Women’s secrets, sensitivity, and their love More than men, it’s harder for me to shoot women than men.”
From the unicorn of a woman in [Under the Sand], the tragedy caused by the women under the gorgeous package in [八美图], to the mystery surging of eroticism in [Swimming Pool], this may be Ozon's admiration for the female subject matter he admires. Another challenge of changing the line.

2007.7.

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Swimming Pool quotes

  • Julie: [sauntering over to Sarah's lounge chair, bikini bottom without the top, long legs, bare breasts, charming raw European accent] You not too hot?

    [the older woman wakes up, startled]

    Julie: Sorry I woke you up.

    Sarah Morton: [composing herself] No.

    [sitting up]

    Sarah Morton: I was just dozing.

    Julie: [soft laugh, casually sitting down flat next to Sarah's deck chair, not at all mindful of her lack of dress] You must be working too hard. You should take a swim in the pool. The water is cold. It will wake you up.

    Sarah Morton: Ah, well, thank you for your advice, but I absolutely loathe swimming pools.

    Julie: Yeah, I know what you mean. I prefer the sea too. The ocean,

    [smiling fondly]

    Julie: the crashing waves, that feeling of danger that you could loose footing and be swept away... Pools are boring, there's no excitement, its just a big bathtub.

    Sarah Morton: [coldly summing up] It's more like a cesspool of living bacteria.

    Julie: [looking back, clearly more optimistic about life] Oh that? No, it's just a bit of dirt and leaves.

    [Sarah nods, unconvinced, set in her ways]

    Julie: So, what are you writing? A romance novel?

    Sarah Morton: [smirks at the very thought] God, no, I write crime fiction.

    Julie: Oh, yeah.

    [disapprovingly:]

    Julie: That's how he makes his money.

    Sarah Morton: [haughtily] And that's how he can afford to buy a beautiful house in France for his daughter to enjoy.

    Julie: [slight frown, reminded of her status as Daddy's girl] What about you? Are your books selling well?

    Sarah Morton: [grimly] I can't complain.

    Julie: [chummily] What is this one about?

    Sarah Morton: [as if to quell her enthusiasm by pouring cold water over her] Murders. And the police investigation.

    Julie: [giggling] In the Luberon? With rich English stories?

    Sarah Morton: [her impatience now all-out] Listen, if you don't mind, I do have work to do.

    Julie: Okay! I leave you alone, Miss Marple. I need to make some phone calls anyway.

    [walks off, her wedge heels clattering, leaving Sarah to the emptiness of her departure]

  • Julie: [in French; subtitled] AHH! You scared me!

    Sarah Morton: [in French] Who are you? What are you doing in my house?

    Julie: [in French] Your house? This is my house! I should be asking you.

    [short pause; now speaking English]

    Julie: Are you English?

    Sarah Morton: [in English] That's correct. I'm Sarah Morton, I'm a writer and my publisher, John Bosload, is letting me have this house.

    Julie: Ah, so you're Daddy's latest conquest.

    Sarah Morton: You're his daughter?

    Julie: So what? He didn't say I was coming?

    Sarah Morton: No, he didn't tell me you were coming.

    Julie: I'm not surprised. Is he here?

    Sarah Morton: No, I'm here on my own and I'm here to work, and not expecting visitors.

    Julie: [lights a cigarette] So he's not here.

    Sarah Morton: Are you going to be staying long?

    Julie: I don't know. I don't have much work these days. So, which bedroom did you take?

    Sarah Morton: The one upstairs overlooking the pool.

    Julie: Of course. That's the best one. Well, I better unpack.