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.Beautifully shot, and with music composed by three-times... Academy Award-winning Michel Legrand, this slow-burning, sensual thriller is now available for the first time on DVD. [show more]
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Jacques Deray directs this 1960s French psychological thriller set in a luxurious holiday villa in St Tropez. A rich and beautiful young couple, writer Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and his journalist wife Marianne (Romy Schneider), are holidaying in their idyllic seafront villa when they receive an unexpected visit from their old friend Harry (Maurice Ronet) and his teenage daughter Penelope (Jane Birkin). A potent cocktail of hot sun, idleness, alcohol and semi-nudity soon gives rise to jealousy and sexual tension, with ultimately disastrous consequences.
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