'The Swimming Pool' movie ending

[Dewey]

WARNING: Do not read this thread if you have not seen 'The Swimming Pool' and do not want the ending spoiled for yourself!

Need a little help figuring this one out, folks. I enjoyed the movie a lot, especially Ludivine Sagnier (yum!), but the ending is puzzling. Here is the best I am able to do so far:

Sarah Morton is a mystery writer, used to piecing stories together from clues. In the summer home she is visiting, she invents a story about a young girl from various clues (a diary, a pair of underwear at poolside, a manuscript, perhaps some blood on the pool deck). This young woman, ostensibly the daughter of her publisher, is not real, and this is only revealed in the final scene, when she waves to both young girls from the balcony.

But even so, what is the meaning of waving to both girls from the balcony?

Here are some alternative explanations, but each has flaws:

1) The young girl she meets in France is the mother of the young daughter at the end. The scar on her stomach represents the car accident she died from.

2) The young girl she meets in France is an imposter, and only at the end does she realize this when she meets the real daughter.

3) Charlotte Rampling was the young girl at poolside, in her youth, who was impregnated and had an abortion to save her career (hence the murder "for the book" and the stomach scar).

All of these have loopholes and problems which leave certain threads hanging, to my way of thinking. I'm interested in your interpretations. What do you think?



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[curtoid]

I came away assuming that the writer imagined the whole thing in France while there writing the book; created the ideal daughter (which is why she was so attractive, as opposed to the reality of when we finally do see the daughter at the end), and worked out some of her own issues about the relationship she was having with the publisher/daughter's father.

But does it really matter? Ludivine Sagnier naked about a third of the time in the movie was worth the price of admission alone.

Still, the one thing that did bother me was what was this young, hot just this side of legal young woman doing with the men she chose? There was something obviously going on there, with the choices the daughter had for herself, as opposed to who the writer imagined she (as a young hot girl) should be with? Maybe again it's the writer confronting her own bad choices she has made through her life.

A cool movie - not for everyone.

[KOP]

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Very intriguing movie I saw with my ladyfriend last week and I did not know what to expect. What a curveball this movie threw at you. I did not see it coming.

But does it really matter? Ludivine Sagnier naked about a third of the time in the movie was worth the price of admission alone.Damn right... sooo hot.

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[Reggie]

Great Movie: I really think the publisher's daughter came to visit. The Daughter, who we see visiting the office at the end, was boring. The sex pot is the complete alter ego therefore both waving at her at the end. She saw 2 daughters the one who the stodgy publisher sent to the house and the one she created.

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