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 ...

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 ...

Swimming Pool In Swimming Pool, as in all French filmmaker François Ozon’s loveliest work, sensuously photographed paradise is disturbed by a thrum of sexually charged anxiety. The Eden that Ozon ...

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 ...