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La Piscine

  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Jacques Deray
  • Italy, France 1969
  • 123 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Alain Delon and Romy Schneider are Jean-Paul and Marianne, lovers who appear to be gloriously happy in a sumptuous villa in the south of France. Then Marianne's ex-lover shows up for a visit: breezy record producer Harry who makes no secret of his continued desire. Meanwhile, Jean-Paul is fascinated by Penelope, the sexy teenage daughter Harry has brought along.
“Jacques Deray's languid thriller from 1969 is a tour de force of sexual longing and controlled suspense” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.
Filmography: The Outside Man (1972), Borsalino (1970), L'homme de Marrakech (1966), Rififi in Tokyo (1963).
Restored Copy

 

The film is half of  Double Feature a chance to watch a classic film followed by its contemporary version A Bigger Splash.

By tickets for both for only 65 Shekels (only when purchasing at the same time, by phone or at the festival box office)

 


  • Director Jacques Deray
  • Production Gérard Beytout
  • Script Jacques Deray, Alain Page, Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Cinematography Jean-Jacques Tarbès
  • Editing Paul Cayatte
  • Music Michel Legrand
  • Actors Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin
  • Source SND, Neuilly-sur-Seine

La Piscine