Alan Dale is author of Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies.
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Charlotte Rampling in Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool: The Writer's Life - Page 7
Alan Dale is author of Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies.
Alan Dale earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He currently works as a corporate tax attorney in Portland, Oregon.
He is the author of What We Do Best: American Movie Comedies …
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8 Women
Under the Sand
Serie Noir: Vendredi Soir (French Edition)
Sa femme
Un couple
Zardoz
The Night Porter (Criterion Collection Spine #59)
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Georgy Girl [VHS]
The Blue Angel
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Article comments
1 - Naomi
Wow!! I just finished watching this movie, and I ran to my computer to try to figure out what happened at the end. I found the link to this page, and I am so happy, even though it didn't explain the end (I suppose that's in keeping with the mood of the movie :) ) I just wanted to say that this article is stunning! An amazing piece. You mentioned many things I had felt watching and put them so much more succinctly than I could have... truly beautiful~ Thank YOU!
2 - roxercat
Perhaps the scar on Julie's stomach that she says "came from the God's" is from having a c-section and Julia is really Julie's daughter (Sarah could be thinking at the end when she's waving at them both by the pool, first one and then the other, how much they look alike). And maybe the book that she left with Sarah is a book that Julie herself wrote and was rejected by Bosload. That was my impression at the end... This would indicate Bosload got Julie pregnant at a very early age but would explain why she is so messed up and why she never finished the book that he rejected because she was so young and impressionable. I think Sarah is looking into the office at the end finally realizing the real truth about who Julie was, thus the flashback swimming pool waving scene...