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3 | ''La Piscine'' (''The Swimming Pool'') is a 1969 Italian-French PsychologicalThriller film directed by Creator/JacquesDeray, starring Creator/AlainDelon, Creator/RomySchneider and Creator/JaneBirkin. |
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5 | Marianne (Schneider) and Jean-Paul (Delon) spend their holidays in the villa of a friend, near Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera. Marianne hears that Harry, a friend, is in Saint-Tropez, so she invites him. He visits them with his daughter Penelope (Birkin). Marianne suggests they should spend a couple of days in the villa and Harry accepts. |
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7 | A loose {{Remake}} named ''Film/ABiggerSplash'', directed by Creator/LucaGuadagnino and intended as the middle installment of his ''Desire'' [[ThematicSeries Thematic Trilogy]], was released in 2015. It starred Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/TildaSwinton, Creator/MatthiasSchoenaerts, and Creator/DakotaJohnson. |
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9 | It should not be confused with ''Film/SwimmingPool'', a 2003 French thriller directed by Creator/FrancoisOzon. |
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12 | !!''La Piscine'' provides examples of: |
13 | * TheAlcoholic: Jean-Paul is a recovered alcoholic. After a quarrel with Marianne, he starts drinking a lot of whisky again. |
14 | * BilingualBonus: In the French version, Marianne talks on the phone with Harry in English and her lines are not translated. |
15 | * BottleEpisode: The film is almost entirely set in a French Riviera villa, with a main cast of five. |
16 | * BoyfriendBlockingDad: Harry tells Jean-Paul that his daughter Penelope is off-limits and that he will never see her again when he suspects that Jean-Paul had sex with her. {{Justified|Trope}} because Penelope is only 18 and Jean-Paul is much older. |
17 | * BrokenAce: Jean-Paul is a handsome guy who has a good job in an advertising agency. He has a beautiful girlfriend and he spends his holidays in a big villa on the French Riviera. However, he is dissatisfied with life. He dreamed of becoming a writer and he failed. He even tried to commit suicide because of this failure. He is a recovered alcoholic. In the end, he becomes [[spoiler:a murderer]]. |
18 | * BungledSuicide: After the failure of his book, Jean-Paul tried to commit suicide, but he survived. |
19 | * CoolCar: Harry has a Maserati Ghibli. When he arrives, Marianne immediately notices the beautiful car. Later, Jean-Paul asks to drive it. |
20 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Over the course of the film, we realize that Jean-Paul is a recovered alcoholic and that he tried to commit suicide. |
21 | * DidTheyOrDidntThey: Whether Jean-Paul and Penelope had sex when they went swimming together is left ambiguous. |
22 | * ElephantInTheLivingRoom: When Jean-Paul and Penelope come back to the villa after swimming together, Harry and Marianne suspect that they had sex together. However, during the dinner, they only talk about insignificant subjects. |
23 | * {{Fanservice}}: This film features two leading sex symbols of their time, Alain Delon and Romy Schneider, in and around a swimming pool. You draw conclusions. |
24 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
25 | ** Penelope reads a detective novel, which is a sign that there will be a murder. |
26 | ** The morning after the spontaneous party, Jean-Paul complains that he completely fails at some days, and this is going to be one of them. The day ends [[spoiler:with him becoming a murderer]]. |
27 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Jean-Paul]] murders [[spoiler:Harry]], but the police does not have enough evidence to arrest him, so he gets away with it. |
28 | * LoveTriangle: |
29 | ** Marianne is in a relationship with Jean-Paul, but when Harry, her former lover, shows up, she lets him seduce her. |
30 | ** Jean-Paul is in a relationship with Marianne, but he is charmed by the young Penelope. |
31 | * MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: After drowning [[spoiler:Harry, Jean-Paul]] removes his clothes, hides them and puts dry clothes by the swimming pool, so that it looks like [[spoiler:Harry]] drowned himself. |
32 | * MomentKiller: In the opening scene, Jean-Paul and Marianne are going to have sex by the pool (Jean-Paul has already removed Marianne's bra), when the phone rings. Marianne wants to pick it up. |
33 | * MostWritersAreWriters: Jean-Paul is a would-be writer who has eventually given literature up. He presently works in an advertising agency. |
34 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Harry is Marianne's ex-lover and he flirts with her. Jean-Paul, Marianne's boyfriend, murders him.]] |
35 | * NewOldFlame: Harry is Marianne's ex-lover. They start flirting again, until [[spoiler:Jean-Paul murders Harry]]. |
36 | * OffTheWagon: After a quarrel with Marianne, Jean-Paul, a recovered alcoholic, starts drinking whisky again. |
37 | * ThePlace: The eponymous swimming pool, which is the centrepiece of the villa and is arguably a character on its own. |
38 | * PoolScene: Pool movie, in this case. The characters spend most of their time in or by the pool, so there are many fan-servicy shots of Creator/AlainDelon and Creator/RomySchneider in swimsuits. |
39 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Harry delivers one to Jean-Paul at night by the swimming pool, just before falling into it. Harry tells that Jean-Paul is a selfish spoilt child, who has been always handled too carefully because he nearly killed himself when he was 17. This speech urges Jean-Paul to [[spoiler:murder Harry]]. |
40 | * RecoveredAddict: Jean-Paul was an alcoholic, but he stopped drinking. During the party, he complains about the fact that he is asked to open the bottles, but that he cannot drink them. |
41 | * RuleOfPool: Harry eventually falls into the swimming pool. Then [[spoiler:Jean-Paul does not let him out and even drowns him]]. |
42 | * ShirtlessScene: Jean-Paul (played by Creator/AlainDelon) is often shirtless by the pool (for example in the opening scene). |
43 | * SexySurfacingShot: In the opening scene, Marianne gets out of the pool in bikini and reveals her wet body. There is a close-up of her body when she gets close to Jean-Paul. |
44 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: Jean-Paul and Harry are supposed to be friends but Harry constantly belittles Jean-Paul and he flirts with Jean-Paul's girlfriend. From his part, Jean-Paul flirts with Harry's 18-year-old daughter and he finally [[spoiler:murders him]]. |
45 | * WritersSuck: Jean-Paul, who wanted to be a writer, has given literature up. |
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