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Swimming Pool
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2902
- IMDb #2968
- Rotten Tomatoes #2008
- Metacritic #2145
- Letterboxd #2373
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1649
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2829
- Metacritic Critics #1456
- Metacritic Audience #3443
- Criticker #1738
- Kinopoisk #2943
- AlloCiné #4226
- Trakt #3869
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 49, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 84. Critics average 77, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A British mystery writer suffering from writer's block visits her publisher's summer home in France for inspiration. Her solitary retreat is interrupted by the publisher's provocative French daughter, who arrives unannounced. The writer's curiosity about the young woman's hedonistic life fuels her imagination, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, especially after a possible murder.
Details
- Director
- François Ozon
- Writers
- Emmanuèle Bernheim, François Ozon
- Studio
- France 2 Cinéma, Fidélité Productions, Gimages, FOZ
- Released
- 21 May 2003
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $7.8M
- Box office
- $22.4M
- Awards
- 1 win, 15 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (16) →
Awards & nominations
See all 16 →1 win from 16 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| César Awards 2004 | Best Supporting Actress | Ludivine Sagnier | Nominee |
| César Awards 2004 | Best Actress | Charlotte Rampling | Nominee |
| Cannes Film Festival 2003 | Palme d'Or | Swimming Pool | Nominee |
| Critics Choice Awards 2003 | Best Foreign Film | Swimming Pool | Nominee |
| London Film Critics' Circle 2004 | British Actress of the Year | Charlotte Rampling | Nominee |
| London Film Critics' Circle 2004 | Foreign Language Film of the Year | Swimming Pool | Nominee |
| Seattle Film Critics Awards 2004 | Best Actress | Charlotte Rampling | Nominee |
| Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2003 | Best Actress | Ludivine Sagnier | Nominee |
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16 awards — Swimming Pool
×| Best Actress | Charlotte Rampling | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Ludivine Sagnier | Nominee |
| Palme d'Or | Swimming Pool | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film | Swimming Pool | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Charlotte Rampling | Winner |
| Best Actress – People's Choice | Charlotte Rampling | Nominee |
| Best Actress – People's Choice | Ludivine Sagnier | Nominee |
| Best Director – People's Choice | François Ozon | Nominee |
| Best Film | Swimming Pool | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Charlotte Rampling | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Ludivine Sagnier | Nominee |
| British Actress of the Year | Charlotte Rampling | Nominee |
| Foreign Language Film of the Year | Swimming Pool | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Ludivine Sagnier | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Ludivine Sagnier | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Charlotte Rampling | Nominee |