Swimming Pool (unrated) dvd

POSTED 29 - FEBURARY - 2004   ON NEVARANTA.COM

by Filmhazard

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First time I started watching this movie I thought I was heading for a rip of, it started with a old fashioned use of camera, and sound recorded on the set with all the background noises there are. Surely it wasn’t a low budget European art movie I had signed up for, or?

 

Shortly summed up the movie introduce to an middle age English woman ( Charlotte Rampling) , a crime writer who suffer sort of a writers block after years of success with here continuous crime series – her publisher suggest she go to his vacation home in France to gather inspiration.

 

It’s just part of the movies style which in every way is a bit old fashioned (movie technical wise), but it has – as I found, a fascinating story, though I would never have known if it wasn’t for super sexy Ludivine Sagnier, who plays the writer’s publisher’s daughter, entering the picture just when I was about to give the movie up. But that was the cinema release – now for the unrated DVD. :)

 

For those who hoped for a more raunchy film just because it’s labelled unrated I would have to disappoint you all it means is there are more nudity which might excite some – what it does for the movie though it make the cutting more naturally, or to put it another way more as the editor intended it to be.

 

As the movie progress we are drawn into a story that with hidden facts. The movie takes time to capture every sense of the atmosphere where it’s filmed – it is as you can smell and feel the little French village.

 

Though the film might seem to progress slowly at times you will not realise that you spent 1 hours and 43 minutes watching as the end title screen appears, which would in my book count for some of the factor of what makes a captivating movie.

 

SPOILER ALERT: The interesting plot comes at the end of the movie when we learn that (as far I gathered) at some point in the movie the story the author writes and what we see merged, interesting twist.

Oh, BTW I've been seek lately so that's why this dvd review is a bit later then the release date this time.. I'll review thriteen in a matter of days so check back at your favouite urban youth portal and read your (ahm.. ) Filmhazard your favourite reviewer's reviews.

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