In Rampling, he has a willing victim. She uses her neighborhood gym's pool as a sort of sensory deprivation chamber, and her shower as a place to wash her sins away. But it's not as simple as that. Her plain carnal desire conflicts with her misplaced, but understandable fealty toward her dead husband. The affair makes Marie's character more complex, and combined with Ozon's methodical approach to the material, a fascinating meditation on loss, loneliness and how the living can rebuild their lives.
Water is indeed the universal solvent.
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