SWIMMING POOL: Cannes Heat at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi

FOMO Cinema Presents: CANNES HEAT

Summer has finally arrived, so FOMO is bringing CANNES HEAT to the big screen: a week of scandalous, divisive, sexy and seductive films that shocked audiences, split critics and turned desire into cinema history.

SWIMMING POOL

François Ozon | 2003 | France/UK | 1h43m | Presented in the original English and French audio with English subtitles

SWIMMING POOL is François Ozon’s sunlit psychological trap. Charlotte Rampling plays Sarah Morton, a successful British crime novelist who travels to her publisher’s house in the south of France to work in peace. That plan collapses when the publisher’s young daughter Julie arrives, bringing noise, sex, mess and a very different relationship to pleasure.

The film caused a stir because Ozon dresses it like an erotic thriller, then keeps pulling the floor out from under it. Is Sarah witnessing something dangerous, inventing it, desiring it, or rewriting it into fiction? The film’s nudity and sexual tension got the attention, but its real provocation is slipperier: Ozon makes the viewer complicit in wanting a scandal, then refuses to say exactly what happened.

Charlotte Rampling is brilliant here. Dry, brittle, watchful and increasingly unsettled, she turns repression into a full performance style. Ludivine Sagnier plays against her with a physical confidence that feels almost designed to irritate Sarah into action.

When SWIMMING POOL premiered in Competition at Cannes in 2003, it became one of Ozon’s most widely discussed films. The erotic thriller surface drew attention, but the real argument was over its ending. Ozon leaves the film suspended between confession, fantasy and fiction, letting the audience decide how much of the story Sarah has lived, and how much she has written.

Screening: 18:30 Thursday 4 June
FOMO Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi

FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00,.serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!

LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.

HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us:
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