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Event Date as Display String:

Saturday, October 19, 2019, 7:00pm - 8:40pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/swimming-pool-2019-10

Event Description:

With his archly stylish and self-conscious thriller, Ozon made clear
his playful dedication to a postmodern variant of auteurist cinema by
taking the title, sundrenched setting and uneasy eroticism from
Jacques Deray's eponymous, now-classic 1969 film to create an uncanny
almost-doppelgänger feature placed in deliberate quotes by the figure
of Charlotte Rampling as a popular but frustrated British crime
novelist come to France to try and write in a different vein. What
Rampling encounters in her promised Provence idyll is, of course, not
what she expected, but instead what the knowing viewer not so secretly
hoped for: a sex thriller murder mystery announced by the sudden
arrival of the brooding nymphet daughter of Rampling's publisher, who
immediately sets into play a slow-motion and ambiguous rivalry with
the older woman. As the mysterious daughter, Ozon regular Ludivine
Sagnier injects a searching energy into the story as she gradually
challenges Rampling to unleash her inhibitions, promising to reveal
dark secrets of a buried crime that appeal to the writer's cherished
demons and the viewer's darkest curiosity.

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Saturday, October 19, 2019 - 19:00 to 20:40

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