Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Stephane Freiss, Geraldine Pailhas, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance

Director: Francois Ozon

Summary: Collections of the three films directed by acclaimed French filmmaker, Francois Ozon. Includes SWIMMING POOL, 8 WOMEN and 5 x 2.

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Contains three films from director François Ozon: Swimming Pool, 8 Women and 5 x 2.

Swimming Pool - In terms of alluring female nudity, Swimming Pool shows a lot, but it's what remains concealed that gives this erotic thriller a potent, voyeuristic charge. With his Hitchcockian handling of secrets and lies, prolific French director François Ozon reunites with his Under the Sand star Charlotte Rampling to tell a seductive tale of murder and complicity, beginning when British mystery novelist Sarah Morton (Rampling) seeks peace and relaxation at her publisher's French villa, only to find his brash, sexually liberated daughter Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) arriving shortly thereafter to disrupt her solitary reverie.

What begins as mutual annoyance turns into something more sinister and duplicitous, alternating between Julie's predatory sex with men and Sarah's observant, perhaps jealous fascination. These two women, generations apart, share in Ozon's delicate dance of trust, curiosity and gradual understanding until a twist ending that forces you to re-evaluate everything you've seen. Only then are the mysteries of Swimming Pool fully and tantalisingly revealed. --Jeff Shannon, amazon.com

8 Women - The cream of France's cinema sirens star in the deliciously candy-coloured 8 Women, a murder mystery speckled with ornate performances that play up the public image of the actresses themselves. Eight women find themselves snowbound in a house with a dead man--a man each of them (his wife, sister, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, daughters, housekeeper, and chambermaid) had reason to kill. Secrets tumble forth, accusations fly, catfights flare, and confrontations turn steamy, all accompanied by campy performances of 1960s French pop songs. At first, these musical numbers seem like pure kitsch, comic and entertaining, but over the movie's course, they become strangely touching. Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Virginie Ledoyen, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Beart, Isabelle Huppert, Ludivine Sagnier, and Firmine Richard are all superb, investing their cardboard characters with a strange emotional resonance--and their costumes are exquisite. An entrancing piece of giddy fluff. --Bret Fetzer

5 x 2 is a haunting and realistic evocation of the evanescence of love and how adult relationships evolve over time. Returning to a more intimate scale following his international smash, Swimming Pool, Francois Ozon's chamber drama is an anatomy of a failed marriage told in reverse chronology, starting with the finalization of the couple's divorce and concluding, literally, as they walk off into the sunset for their first encounter. Subverting the conventions of cinema romance along with audience expectations of happy endings, Ozon focuses on five key chapters in these two people's lives -- including the first blush of sexual attraction, the wedding night, and the birth of their first child -- that reveal the inextricable emotional ties between them, while at the same time exposing the inevitable seeds of discord.

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	French
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive menu, Scene selection
Subtitles:	English
Release Date:	October 1, 2007
Runtime:	291 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	3689901000
Keywords:	Collection, Women, Pool, Swimming, X, Francois, Ozon
Genre:	Drama