Swimming Pool (2003)

Rating: 50

I have considered this film watchable merely as a superficial entertainment. As for an interpretation of it, you have it below, but do not read it unless you have already watched the movie, as it contains major spoilers.
IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THIS MOVIE ALREADY, I STRONGLY WARN YOU AGAINST READING THIS REVIEW AS IT IS ENTIRELY BASED ON DETAILS OF THE PLOT.
I wrote the review below and first published it on December 30, 2005, elsewhere.

***BEGINNING OF SPOILERS***
Julia Bosload is a 16 year old girl whose father is a publisher and mother is a crime novelist. She is herself an aspiring writer and intends to write her first novel while she is enjoying her vacation in her big house in the South of France with her mother. Julia has an adolescent crush on an older guy, whose name is Franck and who works as a waiter in a local café. But although she has a fertile imagination, she is inexperienced in the sex department. She sets most of her novel in a town and house like the ones she is at. The main characters are: a mystery writer, the inspiration for which is her mother; 24 year old Julie, who is sort of a projection of her own fantasies; a publisher (after her father), and Franck (after Franck). The novel, whose elaboration is depicted in the film, is full of ridiculous nonsense, and is the obvious product of an adolescent, inexperienced in art as well as in life, mind.