The Swimming Pool (1969) ( La Piscine ) ( The Sinners (La piscina) )

The Swimming Pool (1969) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: La Piscine
Alternate Title: The Sinners (La piscina)
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Jacques Deray

Written By:
Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Emmanuel Conil

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

Synopsis:

Jacques Deray's 1969 classic La Piscine is set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, where Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) 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.

Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As they frolic in a swimming pool in St. Tropez, she receives a call from the record executive Harry (Maurice Ronet). He arrives with his nubile young daughter (Jane Birkin). Harry and Marianne were once lovers and he makes a pass at her. Meanwhile, Jean-Paul makes a pass at Harry's daughter. After some drinking, Harry and Jean-Paul fight, resulting in Harry being pushed into the pool. Jean-Paul refuses to help the struggling man as he drowns, and the young couple tries to get their stories straight in order to avoid being charged with murder in this sometimes masochistic feature from France.

Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. After a visit Marianne invites former lover Harry and his teenage daughter Penelope to stay. Tension between the grown-ups rises especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope. The consequences are deadly.

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