Ludivine Sagnier plays one of the sexiest roles of the past 10 years in this underrated erotic thriller from Francois Ozon. Given that she spends much of the movie clad in just a bikini (and often less than that), it's no wonder that Swimming Pool succeeds so throughly in creating a tense and nail-biting situation that happens to be incredibly erotic in equal measure. The film stars the wonderful Charlotte Rampling as a novelist who borrows her friend's house in France and finds herself engaged in a face-off with his incredibly hot and flirtatious teenage daughter named Julie. As the situation becomes increasingly more frustrating for Rampling's character, Sarah, she soon enough finds herself enamoured by Julie's antics... The film loses its way somewhat in the last third, but the first hour of the picture is so dripping with tension and sex that it doesn't matter; this only antidote to this film is a cold shower.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
