The Swimming Pool

1970 "The most dangerous love-game ever played"
7.1| 2h3m| PG| en
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Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.

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Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
christopher-underwood Leisurely yes but packed with an undercurrent of fierce and troubling action. I first watched this in a rather poor English dub and then again in German without subtitles and it was striking the second time how noticeable are the various glances, grimaces and come ons. Supposed old friend of Delon's character and ex lover of Rome Schneider turns up at an idyllic Riviera villa being rented by the couple and brings his supposed daughter, Jane Birkin. I think Maurice Ronet is somewhat lacking and barely believable as a man about town and certainly not as a daddy. Anyway it is beautifully shot in wonderful setting in and about the eponymous 'swimming pool' in which quite a lot happens, from the sexually charged encounters at the start to the more sombre goings on later. Some fantastic costumes help Schneider and Birkin look sensational throughout and the former young lady doesn't look at all bad naked either, especially when she is sampling an altogether different brushstroke with a branch of a nearby tree.
yorick-23 French, very french -- not to say a complete and utter bore. Plus, Schneider and Delon are overrated. Just being young and beautiful isn't acting. +++ Now you can stop reading, I just had to fill those extra lines with dummy text to get the minimum amount of words. On the other hand, Latin nonsense automatically corrected by American spell check could cause some fun: Lorem gypsum dolor sit met, consecrate autopsies el-it, sued resumed temper incident ult la bore et dolor magma aliquot. Ut enema ad minim venial, quit nostril excitations Ullman laborious nisi ult illiquid ex ea common conceit. Quis cute cure reprehended in voluptuous valid ease slim dolor emu fagot null parade. Excepteur sent objects cupidity non proudest, stunt in culpa quo officer descent moll it annum id est labium. Duis airtime veil eum inure dolor in handwrite in voluptuary valid ease moles tie conceit, veil ileum dolor emu fagot null faceless at verso Eros et axeman et gusto Odin diagnose quo bland present lutetium Cyrill telnet argue dues dolor tie forgot null faceless. Lorem gypsum dolor sit met, consecrated imposing el-it, sued diam noun nob assumed incident ult Laredo dolor magma aliquot brat volatility.
BQA Films We can only buy the NTSC VHS released in French Canada in 1970's.......Alain Delon plays a French writer having an affair with Romy Schneider, a successful journalist. At a swimming pool in St. Tropez......a record executive (Maurice Ronet) arrives with his nubile young daughter (Jane Birkin). Harry and Marianne were once lovers and he makes a pass at her. Meanwhile, Jean-Paul makes a pass at Harry's daughter. After some drinking, Harry and Jean-Paul fight, resulting in Harry being pushed into the pool and drowns......the young couple tries to get their stories straight in order to avoid being charged with murder in this sometimes masochistic feature from France.....French Language Jacket and the version we find in Quebec is French Language with No English Subtitles.....Running Time is 2 Hours 03 Minutes.....We no longer buy ex-rentals because most have been tampered with......
allyjack The movie is languid and superficial and slow-moving but that's generally fine, if you feel like revisiting one of those archetypal, now almost forgotten, mildly (extremely mildly) titillating flicks which used to show up (dubbed) in the Adults Only slot on Friday late-night British TV in the late seventies. The earlier sequences glisten with tanned flesh, against which the slowly building tensions (Ronet and Schneider's past affair; Delon's attraction toward the daughter; Delon's relative failure as a writer and his realization that Ronet doesn't really like him) sometimes seem almost resonant. The movie becomes merely formulaic once it has to tie up the strands of the murder though - the only question being whether Schneider will stay with Delon or not, and it's clear at the end that this amounts to little more than the flip of a coin. Neither the writing nor the acting in the later stretches is sufficient to make very much out of this game of psychological cat and mouse.