Synopsis: The bright sun of the French Riviera is deceptive in this languorously alluring exercise in slow-burn suspense from thriller specialist Jacques Deray and legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrire. Ten years after their breakup, one of European cinemas most iconic real-life couples, Alain Delon and Romy Schneider, reunited for this film, bringing a palpable erotic chemistry to their performances as the bronzed and beautiful vacationers whose blissed-out summer holiday on the Cte dAzur is interrupted by the arrival of an old acquaintance (Maurice Ronet) and his eighteen-year-old daughter (Jane Birkin)unleashing a gathering tidal wave of sexual tension, jealousy, and sudden violence.
The Swimming Pool: First Love Never Dies, the English language version of the film
Fifty Years Later, a 2019 documentary by Agnès Vincent Deray featuring actors Alain Delon and Jane Birkin, screenwriter Jean Claude Carrière, and novelist Jean Emmanuel Conil
New interview with scholar Nick Rees Roberts on the film’s cinematic and aesthetic legacy
Archival footage featuring Delon, Birkin, actors Romy Schneider and Maurice Ronet, and director Jacques Deray
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