She threw me a look I caught in my hip pocket, Robert Mitchum s private eye says of Charlotte Rampling s femme fatale in Farewell, My Lovely (1975). You don t know what that means, but you know exactly what it means. Rampling has always had the aura of a woman who knows things you would like to do that you haven t even thought of. She played boldly sexual roles early in her career, as in The Night Porter (1974), and now, in Swimming Pool, a sensuous and deceptive new thriller, she becomes fascinated by a young female predator.
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Rampling plays Sarah Morton, a British crime writer whose novels seem to exist somewhere between those of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell. Now she is tired and uncertain, and her publisher offers her a holiday in his French villa. She goes gratefully to the house, shops in the nearby village, finds she can write again. She is alone, except for a taciturn caretaker, who goes into the village at night to live with his daughter, a dwarf who see
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