Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool

On the surface, all is calm.

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Release Date

5/21/2003

Runtime

102 mins

Overview

A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$7,800,000

Revenue

$22,441,323

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A psychological game of cat-and-mouse unfolds as a reclusive crime writer's peaceful retreat dissolves into mounting suspicion and erotic tension. The film keeps you guessing about what's real and what's the dangerous fantasy bleeding from her imagination onto the real world.

Mood

TenseUnsettlingContemplativeParanoid

Themes

ObsessionArt and creationIdentityMemory

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

FormalistPainterly

Structure

Unreliable narrator

Heads up

Sexual content

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