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7.0Set 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.
Cast
- Alain Delon as Jean-Paul
- Romy Schneider as Marianne
- Maurice Ronet as Harry
- Jane Birkin as Penelope
- Paul Crauchet as L'inspecteur Lévêque
- Suzie Jaspard as Emilie
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- southern france
- relationship problems
- ex-husband ex-wife relationship
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
16,362 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
76/100
- Year
- 1969
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Rated
- 16+
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jacques Deray
- Written by
- Jean-Emmanuel Conil [ fr ] Jacques Deray Jean-Claude Carrière
- Produced by
- Gérard Beytout
- Starring
- Alain Delon Romy Schneider Maurice Ronet Jane Birkin Paul Crauchet
- Cinematography
- Jean-Jacques Tarbès [ fr ]
- Edited by
- Paul Cayatte
- Music by
- Michel Legrand
- Production companies
- Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie Tritone Films
- Distributed by
- Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (France) Variety Distribution (Italy)
- Release dates
- 31 January 1969 ( 1969-01-31 ) (France) 5 April 1969 ( 1969-04-05 ) (Italy)
- Running time
- 124 minutes (French version) 114 minutes (English version)
- Countries
- France Italy
- Languages
- French English
- Box office
- 3,010,464 admissions (France)
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Encyclopedic overview
La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) is a 1969 psychological thriller film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet and Jane Birkin.
Set in summertime on the French Riviera, it is a drama of sexual jealousy and possessiveness. Both French and English-language versions of the film were made, with the actors filmed speaking English for the international release, which was unusual at a time when films were always either dubbed or subtitled. The 114-minute international release, shorter than the French version, also had slightly different editing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Piscine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.