This film rips pages from the David Lynch book, binds it up in French style filmmaking and puts a Sports Illustrated swim suite edition cover on it. You never really know that it is a Lynch like film till the very end and that is one of those things that makes it a little different and a little less exhausting. What else makes it less exhausting is the sexy child-woman Ludivine Sagnier.

Charlotte Rampling plays, Sarah, a British novelist who retires to a French villa for a break to overcome her writer’s block. Sharing the home with her is Julie, her producer’s young daughter, and her crazy teenager-like world full of open sexuality and a touch of the bizarre. Sarah is annoyed by Julie as Julie is clearly what Sarah either was or wanted to be or didn’t realize could be. The two women apparently have something to learn from each other. The rest of the film explores their relation and throws in crooked plot-twists to bend your mind.

François Ozon directs this slow, scenic, sensual film with care and attention to detail. He likes to force you to think about the things he is hiding by showing you too much of the obvious. This is a good script for him and he does justice to it. The camerawork is fantastic and the water in the pool is beautiful. By the end of the film you can’t help but take a dip.