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 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 ...

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 ...

Swimming Pool, the first English language film from acclaimed French writer-director Francois Ozon (8 Women), is billed as "a sexy murder mystery." Nominated for the Golden Palm award at this year's ...

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 ...

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 ...