Young American actresses typically mark their breakthroughs with a flurry of magazine covers and fashion-flaunting makeovers. At the Cannes Film Festival in May, French actress Ludivine Sagnier ...

Americans may not understand the French very well, but one of the darkly glittering jokes of François Ozon’s “Swimming Pool” — at least in the places where it’s funny at all — is that the English ...

With a third of the competition films having screened, this year’s Cannes Film Festival is beginning to reveal its shape: not an altogether masterful display, but neither a complete disappointment of ...

The actor: Ludivine Sagnier’s star turn in Francois Ozon’s Swimming Pool was full of sunlit and aqua-blue poolside nudity, so casual and continual it felt dreamlike. Since then, Sagnier has played it ...

Since her breakout in Francois Ozon’s 2003 Swimming Pool, in which her feisty, bikini-clad Julie was a beguiling foil to Charlotte Rampling’s buttoned up Sarah, Ludivine Sagnier has earned admiration ...

Young American actresses typically mark their breakthroughs with a flurry of magazine covers and fashion-flaunting makeovers. At the Cannes Film Festival in May, French actress Ludivine Sagnier ...

With two lead roles in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, 23-year-old Ludivine Sagnier is already living an actress' dream. In Francois Ozon's "Swimming Pool," the golden-haired French ...

A sophisticated, unpredictable mystery about an uptight crime writer whose creative energy is released by an encounter with her polar opposite, "Swimming Pool" stirs a little of the playfulness of ...

It’s difficult to gauge what George W. might think of Ozon’s film, but I’m having fun trying nevertheless. On the one hand, it’s a mystery, a genre W. seems endlessly attracted to, although the ...