ABSTRACT
In Swimming Pool (2003), Sarah Morton, played by Charlotte Rampling, is the author of the Inspector Dorwell books, a successful murder-mystery series that has brought her huge fortune and fame. Sarah, no longer pleased with her career as an author of crime fiction, wishes to write a serious literary novel and thereby obtain a new status and identity. Sarah confides to her publisher, John Bosload, played by Charles Dance, that she wants to write a character-driven novel that centres on in-depth, well-developed characters, instead of another carefully outlined, plot-driven story of murders and investigations. Sarah accepts her publisher’s offer to use his house in the south of France, hoping that the change of atmosphere will allow her to concentrate better on her new book. As she retreats to John’s house in France, surrounded by tranquillity, Sarah enjoys her days of peaceful isolation—but this mood is disturbed when John’s daughter, Julie, played by Ludivine Sagnier, arrives suddenly.
