# Swimming Pool (2003)

> A guarded mystery novelist’s retreat in Provence becomes an erotic, Hitchcockian puzzle where creative invention and possible murder contaminate each other.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/257

## Facts

- Runtime: 102 min
- Genres: Crime, Thriller
- Director: François Ozon
- Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle, Jean-Marie Lamour, Mireille Mossé, Michel Fau, Jean-Claude Lecas
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324133/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Mood: elegant, erotic, foreboding, late night viewing, arthouse film night

## Synopsis

A mystery author seeks inspiration in the French countryside, only to find herself entangled in a web of intrigue and danger.

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