Sarah Morton is an English author living in London when her publisher John Bosload, tells her she can stay at his holiday cottage in the South of France. She accepts, and once arrived she starts writing her novel. Soon after, Julie Bosload, John's daughter arrives causing a noise and being reckless. While Sarah starts off hate her, she eventually becomes interested in her, and she becomes an inspiration for her book. Not long until these fantasies get sexual and a bit weird.
Francois Ozon directed the wonderful 'In the house' which was one of the best films of last year, so I decided to check out his most famous film. I'm thinking I shouldn't have.
The only redeeming quality is the decent acting by Charlotte Rampling who plays Sarah. It's not that the acting is amazing, but that she is a perfect fit for the main character. Charles Dance appears as the publisher, who is excellent in anything he's in. But that's it. That's the only good thing about this film.
The pacing is too slow. The film may only be 98 minutes long, but that doesn't change the fact it feels like it's 3 hours. Impeccably slow. As the genre for this film is a psychological, erotic thriller, it doesn't thrill at all. The film suffers from being uninteresting. Being interesting is vital for a film where you're meant to care about the main characters, but with the sleep-inducing, snails-pace narrative and the poor acting from Ludivine Sagnie, I didn't want to care, so much as to punch the main characters.
For a film set in the South of France, the setting and cinematography is bland. The eerie music doesn't improve things either, and the script feels like it's written by a very bored screenwriter who's ran out of ideas. Ozon has guts to try such a tricky genre. Sadly it didn't work.
TO CONCLUDE
Bland, uninteresting and wasn't the slightest bit thrilling. Not very good for a thriller.
SCORE
42
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