The Swimming Pool (1969)

PG01/31/1969Drama, Thriller2h 3m
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The most dangerous love-game ever played

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Alain Delon

    Jean-Paul

  2. Cast 1

    Romy Schneider

    Marianne

  3. Cast 1

    Maurice Ronet

    Harry

  4. Cast 1

    Jane Birkin

    Penelope

  5. Cast 1

    Paul Crauchet

    L'inspecteur Lévêque

  6. Suzie Jaspard

    Emilie

  7. Cast 1

    Maddly Bamy

    La mulâtre

  8. Cast 1

    Thierry Chabert

    Un ami

  9. Cast 1

    Steve Eckardt

    Fred

Now if I was on holiday with my partner enjoying the sunshine, the swimming pool and plenty of sex, I don’t think I’d be very impressed at the arrival of their ex-lover and his teenage daughter. Even more inexplicably, it seems that “Marianne” (Romy Schneider) has actually invited “Harry” (Maurice Ronet) and “Pénélope” (Jane Birkin) to share the villa with the perplexed “Jean-Paul” (Alain Delon). It might be revenge or it might just be lust, but fairly swiftly the nose-out-of-joint “Jean-Paul” is becoming fond of the daughter whilst her father rather openly reminisces about and flirts with “Ma...

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Original LanguageFrench 

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