Continuity mistake: Julie doesn't come home one night; the next day as she is getting out of the pool we see that she has been "roughed up" and has a black eye. Next to her eye there is a circular bruise/mark. That evening, as Julie and Sarah are at dinner the bruise is now under Julie's eye and is a different shape (longer and more oval in shape). (00:52:50 - 00:58:00)
Swimming Pool (2003)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: François Ozon
Starring: Charles Dance, Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Jean-Marie Lamour
Sarah Morton (the writer who is staying at the house) finishes her book and brings it to her publisher. He does not like it, and we find out that the book is the story of the movie - she has made it all up. In the last scene, she meets his real daughter who is nothing like the image created in her story.
Travis Fickett
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Sarah Morton: Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one.
Trivia: Near the end, the publisher tells Sarah Morton that he is disappointed in her latest book and asks her "Where's the plot twist?" Interestingly enough, the viewer is presented with a very big plot twist a short while later as the movie ends.
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Chosen answer: Julie was not the publisher's daughter. Julia, who we see at the end, is the real daughter - given that Sarah doesn't seem very surprised to see Julia at the end (and the reaction of the secretary proves she's known to everyone), the most likely explanation is that the entire sequence in France is in fact the content of Sarah's book, and never really happened.
Jon Sandys