Swimming Pool
May 21 2003
•2h 42m
•Crime, Thriller
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.
Cast
See allCharlotte Rampling
Sarah Morton
Ludivine Sagnier
Julie
Charles Dance
John Bosload
Marc Fayolle
Marcel
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