![]() ![]() After one of the chicer funeral scenes committed to film, Marianne covers for Jean-Paul to the police, despite the fact Jean-Paul had just declared his desire to leave her for Penelope. (If you are a person with strong opinions about spoiler alerts for 50-year-old French films, skip the rest of this paragraph.) Tensions mount and in the final half-hour Jean-Paul coldly murders Harry by slow, brutal, drowning. Of course, life at the pool is not as it seems. ![]() Much decadence and extremely French crossover love ensues. The lovers are unexpectedly joined by Harry (Maurice Ronet), Marianne’s former paramour and Jean-Paul’s former best friend, and his 18-year-old daughter, Penelope (Jane Birkin). Sadly, he only gets one month of vacation. La Piscine (which means The Swimming Pool) revolves around Jean-Paul (played by Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider), who have retreated to a house with a large pool outside St. If there is a film of New York’s 2021 summer, this may be it. Rear Window, 8 1/2, La Strada and a popular Humphrey Bogart series that included Casablanca have all come and gone, but La Piscine swims on. The film, titled La Piscine (which means The Swimming Pool), is classified as a psychological thriller, but to first-time viewers, very little happens until the very end.įor the past 14 weeks at Film Forum, a long-standing independent and repertory theater on West Houston Street in Manhattan, the 1969 French film La Piscine has been playing - a run that has extended its initial engagement by 12 weeks, and counting. ![]()
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