THE SWIMMING POOL
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An obscenely beautiful couple spend lazy holidays at their idyllic villa. However, when a friend and his attractive young daughter show up, the dreamy summer days are suddenly filled with unspoken tension and jealousy.
In this erotically charged 1960s French classic, Alain Delon and Romy Schneider play advertising executive Jean-Paul and journalist Marianne, gorgeous lovers who appear to be gloriously happy in a sumptuous villa in the south of France. When Jean-Paul’s friend and music executive Harry (Maurice Ronet) arrives in his glinting burgundy Maserati alongside his beautiful daughter Pénélope (Jane Birkin), Jean Paul’s attention is immediately refocused. What transpires over the next few days of al fresco mornings, frisky afternoons and alcohol-laced nights is a vibrating psychodrama about possessiveness and insecurity. Jacques Deray's languid thriller is a tour de force of sexual longing and controlled suspense, filmed with a kaleidoscope of impressive blues, none more so than Alain Delon’s tantalizing eyes. (Subtitles)
France 1969 Jacques Deray 122m
