The Swimming Pool

The Swimming Pool

1969 · 123 min · FR · PG · 7.0 (431 votes)
Dir. Jacques Deray · Starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Suzie Jaspard · Music Michel Legrand

The most dangerous love-game ever played.

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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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A languid, sun-drenched summer holiday sours into a tense, erotic game of desire and jealousy. The air grows thick with unspoken desires and simmering resentments, leading to a dangerous unraveling of relationships under the Mediterranean sun.

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