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  • 1970
  • GP
  • AVCO Embassy Pictures
  • 2 h 2 m
  • 1970
  • GP
  • AVCO Embassy Pictures
  • 2 h 2 m
La Piscine

Summary Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) indulge in their passion for each other while borrowing a friend's luxurious villa in the south of France. When the friend (Maurice Ronet) and his daughter (Jane Birkin) arrive unexpectedly, rivalries and insecurities surface and events take a sinister turn.

Directed By: Jacques Deray

Written By: Jean-Claude Carrière, Alain Page, Jacques Deray

  • 1970
  • GP
  • AVCO Embassy Pictures
  • 2 h 2 m
  • 1970
  • GP
  • AVCO Embassy Pictures
  • 2 h 2 m

La Piscine

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
76
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) indulge in their passion for each other while borrowing a friend's luxurious villa in the south of France. When the friend (Maurice Ronet) and his daughter (Jane Birkin) arrive unexpectedly, rivalries and insecurities surface and events take a sinister turn.

Directed By: Jacques Deray

Written By: Jean-Claude Carrière, Alain Page, Jacques Deray

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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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100
Pretty people behaving poorly in beautiful settings is something we don’t see as much of in cinema as we used to. This is a master class in the subgenre, and one of unusual depth.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
80
Famous in its day for reuniting real-life former lovers Alain Delon and Romy Schneider on-screen, this forgotten 1968 psychological thriller by Jacques Deray deserves to be rediscovered for its darkly sensual story.
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80
This is a deliciously languid, slinkily unsettling affair.
By Trevor Johnston FULL REVIEW
80
Erotic languour turns gradually into fear and then horror in this gripping and superbly controlled psychological thriller from 1969.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
80
The film is never just some glassy exercise in the idly loaded’s languorous cruelty, though. In each magnetic performance (especially Schneider’s), in the sparse but piquant lines from the script co-written with the great, recently departed screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (working from an Alain Page story), and in Deray’s attention to emotional humidity, lies something resolutely curious about human frailty in relationships.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
60
With little action taking place for the majority of the film, this slow boiling story is more of an insightful character study than a heart pounding thriller.
By Patrick Gamble FULL REVIEW
50
The movie is so tautly constructed that not a single idea can seep in; it’s a mechanism made with an eye to spare elegance so obsessive that it runs without functioning, like a watch without hands.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC), Tritone Cinematografica
Release Date Aug 1, 1970
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating GP
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Tagline The most dangerous love-game ever played.
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