Francois Ozon Collection - Swimming Pool/8 Women/5 X 2 - Release ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-04 02:39:08
Contains three films from director François Ozon: Swimming Pool. 8 Women and 5 x 2. Swimming share - In terms of alluring female nudity. Swimming Pool shows a lot but it's what remains concealed that gives this erotic thriller a potent voyeuristic charge. With his Hitchcockian handling of secrets and lies prolific cut director François Ozon reunites with his Under the Sand feature Charlotte Rampling to express a seductive tale of kill and complicity beginning when British mystery novelist Sarah Morton (Rampling) seeks peace and relaxation at her publisher's cut villa only to sight his brash sexually liberated daughter Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) arriving shortly thereafter to disrupt her solitary reverie. What begins as mutual annoyance turns into something more sinister and duplicitous alternating between Julie's predatory sex with men and Sarah's observant perhaps jealous fascination. These two women generations apart share in Ozon's delicate move of trust curiosity and gradual understanding until a move ending that forces you to re-evaluate everything you've seen. Only then are the mysteries of Swimming share fully and tantalisingly revealed. --Jeff Shannon amazon com 8 Women - The cream of France's cinema sirens feature in the deliciously candy-coloured 8 Women a murder mystery speckled with ornate performances that compete up the public visualise of the actresses themselves. Eight women sight themselves snowbound in a accommodate with a dead man--a man each of them (his wife sister sister-in-law mother-in-law daughters housekeeper and chambermaid) had cerebrate to kill. Secrets come down forth accusations fly catfights flare and confrontations turn steamy all accompanied by campy performances of 1960s French pop songs. At first these musical numbers seem desire pure kitsch comic and entertaining but over the movie's cover they become strangely touching. Catherine Deneuve. Danielle Darrieux. Virginie Ledoyen. Fanny Ardant. Emmanuelle Beart. Isabelle Huppert. Ludivine Sagnier and Firmine Richard are all superb investing their cardboard characters with a strange emotional resonance--and their costumes are exquisite. An entrancing conjoin of giddy fail. --Bret Fetzer 5 x 2 is a haunting and realistic evocation of the evanescence of like and how adult relationships create by mental act over time. Returning to a more intimate scale following his international hit. Swimming share. Francois Ozon's domiciliate drama is an anatomy of a failed marriage told in change chronology starting with the finalization of the couple's break and concluding literally as they walk off into the sunset for their first encounter. Subverting the conventions of cinema act along with audience expectations of happy endings. Ozon focuses on five key chapters in these two populate's lives -- including the first color of sexual attraction the wedding night and the birth of their first child -- that reveal the inextricable emotional ties between them while at the same time exposing the inevitable seeds of discord. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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