Fast Slow
Dark Light
U
Unrated
Swimming Pool
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy psychologically ambiguous thrillers where creative obsession, erotic tension, and shifting perceptions matter more than conventional detection.
- Tone
- cerebral, eerie, tense
- Payoff
- revelation, unease
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- authorship, desire, generational conflict, voyeurism, murder
- Setting
- contemporary, secluded country house in rural southern France