Sarah Morton, a successful author of countless thriller novels, was having a writer’s block. To help her do her next novel, Sarah’s publisher, Josh Bosload, offered a vacation house near Lacoste, France. As Sarah was enjoying her vacation-like-work and starting to gain her interest in writing again, Julie, the publisher’s daughter, showed up. She claimed that she was just having a short break from her work. She also claimed that her mother was Bosload’s mistress.
Julie, having an exciting se life, would usually bring a guy every night that she would have a one-night-stand with. Sarah, on the other hand, felt irritated for she couldn’t concentrate on her work. Furthermore, Sarah, being a middle-aged writer with a prim and prop attitude that never experienced such things felt insecure to the beautiful and youthful Julie. But eventually, irritation and insecurity gradually took Sarah’s attention. She then started to sneak into Julie’s personal things and decided to make a story about her. When the relationship of the two started to become okay, Franck, a local waiter, enters the story. Somehow, the two then became rivals. Julie happened to be interested also in the said guy but the latter appeared to be interested in the more mature one, Sarah, whom he became an acquaintance when Sarah frequently visit the bistro where Franck was working.
Julie managed to bring Franck on their house and started to flirt with him. Unexpectedly, Julie invited Sarah to join their company. On that same night, an unexpected tragedy happened. Julie committed a crime in killing Franck. Sarah, on the other hand, didn’t hear all the things that happened for she was wearing earplugs.
The next morning, Sarah started to become curious as to what happened to Julie and Franck. But this simple curiosity lead to a deeper revelation as to what had happened that night – a crime was committed. Julie then confessed that she committed the said crime and that she did that for the sake of Sarah and her book. The two then helped each other in trying to hide the crime.
In an effort to forget what had happened, Julie decided to leave and left the book written by her mother that she previously said was burnt. Sarah also decided to go back to the place she came from and published the book to the other publisher and not on Julie’s dad. When she visited her original publisher, it revealed a big twist in the story. There she saw the REAL Julie – a complete opposite to the Julie she met back in France.
One of the symbols that are evident in the movie is the reflection of the glass when Julie was having sex with a random guy. While they were having sex, a reflection of them was shown in a glass and Sarah was on the other side of the glass, watching. This somehow symbolize having sex, having one-night-stands, this kind of lifestyle is what Sarah really wanted. Another symbolism from the movie is how Sarah would dress herself. At first, she would just dress simply but in the end of the movie, Sarah was seen wearing a red robe. Red, as we all know is looked upon a sensual colour, it somehow symbolize sexiness especially among women. Furthermore, Julie herself symbolized Sarah’s inner conscience, alter ego or what she really wanted. We can all notice that Julie would usually have one-night-stands on OLD GUYS. And also, in the last part of the story, it was revealed that the Julie that Sarah met was just an imagination.
Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier who portrayed as Sarah and Julie really did a great job. Charlotte had this prim and prop aura while Julie had this sexy aura, I can surely say that the both of them really pulled their characters great. And I also love Ludivines’ accent in speaking French.
All in all, although it had a hanging end, it was still a great movie. The end part of the story really gave a great impact of the success of the movie. This movie somehow tells its viewers that you should let go of the things that hinder you from doing what you really want no matter how mischievous it is.
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