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6.8/10   1,147 votes
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Director:
Jacques Deray
Writers:
Jean-Claude Carrière (adaptation)
Jean-Emmanuel Conil (original scenario)
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Release Date:
August 1970 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Plot:
Delon, Schneider and Ronet are a love triangle that leads to disaster. full summary | add synopsis
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Superficial and slow-moving, but provides a certain nostalgia more

Cast

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Alain Delon ... Jean-Paul
Romy Schneider ... Marianne
Maurice Ronet ... Harry
Jane Birkin ... Penelope
Paul Crauchet ... Leveque
Steve Eckhardt ... Fred
Maddly Bamy ... La mulâtre qui danse
Suzie Jaspard ... Emilie
Thierry Chabert ... Un ami
Stéphanie Fugain ... Une amie à la party
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
La piscina (Italy)
The Sinners (UK)
The Swimming Pool (USA)
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Runtime:
120 min
Country:
Italy | France
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Ramatuelle, Var, France more

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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Monogamie für Anfänger (2008) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
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9 out of 17 people found the following comment useful:-
Superficial and slow-moving, but provides a certain nostalgia, 6 August 1999
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Author: allyjack from toronto

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.

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