La Piscine (1969)

Review: La Piscine (1969)

Director: Jacques Deray

Cast: Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet,

Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider
Alain Delon
Alain Delon
Maurice Ronet
Maurice Ronet
Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin
Paul Crauchet
Paul Crauchet

Plot: 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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Recent viewing: April & May 2016

Recent viewing: April & May 2016

Another eclectic selection from my recent viewing, from an old fondly remembered BBC sci-fi series to an unsettling French psychological thriller, from a nasty John Frankenheimer thriller to a pair of atypical Rossellini features striving to […]

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