Dancing/Swimming Pool

I caught this 2003 flick featuring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier last night. In French and English, it follows a mystery writer through a bad case of writer's block to the promised land, i.e., a book about what may or may not be happening to her in the movie.

This movie is about the creative process, the risks writers take to find a voice, about possibilities, moments that might become fodder for stories.

Sayles called the process "thinking in pictures," which he applied to movie-making, but might be reversed to apply to art in general, particularly writing.


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