Swimming Pool
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badsoccerman
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Hi cragr98,
Basically the film was the book that the lead character was writing except at the very beginning and the very end.
Does this help?
Rick.
Hi cragr98,
Basically the film was the book that the lead character was writing except at the very beginning and the very end.
Does this help?
Rick.
Et in arcadia ego
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There was a story?? Must've missed it to busy drooling over the glorious Ludivine Sagnier
amberguillen
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I loved this film except for the ending, which made no sense at all. I looked on Wikipedia and found this :
In a surprise ending, when Sarah returns to England and visits her publisher's office, Julie also shows up in the office; however, the girl in England is literally a different person from the girl that Sarah lived with in France. This confuses the audience on how much of the events at the French country house actually occurred versus how much is Sarah's imagination. One interpretation of these ambiguous scenes is that these imaginations are the basis for Sarah's new book that she wrote during her stay in the house.
I would never have known that had I not looked it up, I just found it confused an otherwise excellent film.
Also, I thought that Sarah (Charlotte Rampling), seemed to take it as normal that the man she had fancied and fantasized about had been murdered. It didn't seem to matter to her at all, although previously, she had gone searching all over for him.
In a surprise ending, when Sarah returns to England and visits her publisher's office, Julie also shows up in the office; however, the girl in England is literally a different person from the girl that Sarah lived with in France. This confuses the audience on how much of the events at the French country house actually occurred versus how much is Sarah's imagination. One interpretation of these ambiguous scenes is that these imaginations are the basis for Sarah's new book that she wrote during her stay in the house.
I would never have known that had I not looked it up, I just found it confused an otherwise excellent film.
Also, I thought that Sarah (Charlotte Rampling), seemed to take it as normal that the man she had fancied and fantasized about had been murdered. It didn't seem to matter to her at all, although previously, she had gone searching all over for him.
stillheartherain
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I missed the start, but went to IMDB afterwarRAB to see if i missed anything. There's a great post on there re a alternative view, basically saying that there never was the young girl anfd it was the older womans other personality. Backing this theory up was the poster noted that when the young girl was on screen there were lots of colour references to red and the older woman it was blue.
The post made good reading, luckily they are repeating it again PVR to record some more of Francois Ozons films (Half way through 5x2 now).
I am getting into foreign films a bit more now especially as I have just got a PVR which allows me to watch films when I would have ordinarily been asleep!!
The post made good reading, luckily they are repeating it again PVR to record some more of Francois Ozons films (Half way through 5x2 now).
I am getting into foreign films a bit more now especially as I have just got a PVR which allows me to watch films when I would have ordinarily been asleep!!
real_shalom
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5x2 was a great film, although i was too confused at the end of swimming pool..i just assumed she went back to England and that was it.
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benjamin_chu
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DeanRAB, so glad you're also getting into foreign films, I can't stress enough how many brilliant non-English language films I've seen, that many people that I know, can't be bothered with - they don't know what they're missing. Some of the very best films I've seen have been from Europe, my particular favourite being French.
If you enjoyed 5x2 (I loved it), please try the IMDB entry for it, where there is a fantastic forum dating back a few years until recently. It puts forward a few theories that I'd never thought of - but made sense when I'd read them. Also, I found out the title of a fantastic piece of music used in the 'dance scene' and at the end of the film, which has haunted me since. ('Sparring Partner' by Paolo Conte, in case anyone happens to want to know, you can You-Tube it too).
Did you catch the excellent short season of classic Jean_Pierre Melville films, that E4 showed a few weeks back? I'd never seen them before but they have stuck in my mind.
If you enjoyed 5x2 (I loved it), please try the IMDB entry for it, where there is a fantastic forum dating back a few years until recently. It puts forward a few theories that I'd never thought of - but made sense when I'd read them. Also, I found out the title of a fantastic piece of music used in the 'dance scene' and at the end of the film, which has haunted me since. ('Sparring Partner' by Paolo Conte, in case anyone happens to want to know, you can You-Tube it too).
Did you catch the excellent short season of classic Jean_Pierre Melville films, that E4 showed a few weeks back? I'd never seen them before but they have stuck in my mind.
Рoppy Seed ♥ ♥ ♥
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!!mattLOL, did you see the description from Wikipedia that I put in my post number 4? It seems to offer a bit of sense to the ending, as I was also confused - at first I thought they'd cut some scenes out!
I thought that the film was pretty awful stuff 
but I certainly got the impression that:
So pretty much what Radiomaniac said then...
If you want to post a spoiler, you should really post the information in a tag (as below, sans the spaces):
[ S P O I L E R ]
Bruce Willis is Kaiser Soze
[ / S P O I L E R ]
but I certainly got the impression that:The film slowly slips from 'reality' to 'fiction' as she mentally plays the book out on film, using the events and iconography of villa to inspire her thrilling tale.
When she returns to her publisher at the end we realize what has (or, indeed, hasn't) happened!
When she returns to her publisher at the end we realize what has (or, indeed, hasn't) happened!
So pretty much what Radiomaniac said then...
If you want to post a spoiler, you should really post the information in a tag (as below, sans the spaces):
[ S P O I L E R ]
Bruce Willis is Kaiser Soze
[ / S P O I L E R ]