sun 14 mar

2.00pm

The Swimming Pool

France | 1968 | col | 120 mins | dir. Jacques Deray, with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin | cert. 15

While on holiday near St Tropez the couple Marianne and Jean-Paul enjoy lazing and making love around the pool. Things take a chillier turn when Marianne’s former lover appears with his teenage daughter. Delon suggested Schneider for the part of Marianne. The onscreen reunion of the former dream couple stirred many rumours and adds to the tension of this taught psychological drama, which also stars Delon’s Plein Soleil partner Maurice Ronet and a very young Jane Birkin. Lavishly photographed and here shown from a new print, it is pure indulgence.