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 ...

“Swimming Pool,” from France, is a psychological thriller about evil in paradise, a film that puts you into one of those enjoyable but jittery moods where things may look sumptuous, but you know ...

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 ...

While she had been acting in her native France for many years, Ludivine Sagnier did not gain international fame until she portrayed a seductive young woman who held deep secrets in the blockbuster ...

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 ...

You’ll have to take your eyes off teen temptress Ludivine Sagnier to navigate the psychological twists in Francois Ozon’s thriller. It’s almost worth it. The French director is a major tease, as ...