Can somoene explain the movie swimming pool?/?

Question

So i watched this movie and i just dont get the ending. Was the girl real or was she imagined? The publisher didn't know that she was going to be there, and it was supposedly his daughter. She murdered a guy. Can someone give me some info on the ending and what it meant

Answer 1

Info and a forum for the movie here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324133/

Answer 2

The entire series of events beginning with Charlotte Rampling's arrival at the French country house, is all fabricated by the authoress - she creates the character/daughter Julie in her imagination of what she believe's Julie might look and be like. Everything, including the murder, Julie's mother's incomplete book, the sex with the grounds keeper, the meal with Julie, are simply all part of Rampling's new creative plot, stimulated by her isolated country vacation. At the end of the movie, the real daughter (Julia?) enters her father's office, a young girl who is totally unknown to Rampling, as the authoress muses through the door's glass windows at the end of the film.

Answer 3

Ozon's Swimming Pool is pretty much open to interpretation, so I can't really offer you the definative answer -- only Ozon really knows for sure.

Here is my take on the film. The entire story is about the creative process -- a writer named Sarah struggling to recapture her spark of creativity amongst bitter feelings of anger and remorse. In my opinion, there are actually two versions of the young girl, Julie.

The first version is very real, the actual daughter of her publisher. Sarah has never met her, but uses her creativity to fashion the second version of Julie, a fictionalized version that Sarah is trying to relate to while at once creating. The simple interpretation is that she is writing a story and the fictional Julie is her main character, but the more complex interpretation is that she is acting vicariously through the actions of her character as a form of therapy.

I hope this helps.