Film Swimming Pool
One of the best-loved and most influential French films of all time is René Clement's 1960 crime thriller Plein Soleil, or Full Sun. It used the sexiness of the French Riviera to throw human evil into stark relief. But Full Sun was based on the novel The Talented Mr Ripley by English writer Patricia Highsmith — it wasn't French at all.
Swimming Pool is. It's written and directed by the highly successful François Ozon. Ozon deliberately exploits the love-hate relationship between the British and the French to explore the tension between the head and the heart…
Ozon likes to look beneath the surface. He shows us the elegance of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament and then takes us under ground. Here we meet a sour-faced woman in her 50s who reacts with pointed rudeness when she's recognised.
· François Ozon [Jana Wendt:Sunday]

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