Meanwhile, he was also reading scripts to do an american film as a director, and he read a couple of mine and thought that the two of us might be able to chart. Swimming pool 2003 with charlotte rampling and charles dance was the first remake. A british mystery author visits her publishers home in the south of france, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics. The characters experience need, fear, love, loss, and deception. Everything you need to know about a bigger splash movie 2016. Luca guadagnino on the inspiration behind a bigger splash. Blood creek and the invasion screenwriter david kaiganich talks about his horrorthriller a bigger splash, his approach to remakes, and the status of it. The movie is languid and superficial and slowmoving but thats generally fine, if you feel like revisiting one of those archetypal, now almost forgotten, mildly extremely mildly titillating flicks which used to show up dubbed in the adults only slot on friday latenight british tv in the late seventies. Lovers marianne and jeanpaul spend their vacation in a villa near st. A bigger splash was released in 2016 on friday, may, 2016 in limited movie theaters. Loved the movie, but need to watch it again before i could comment on your questions, sorry. May 05, 2016 the film, which promises a darkly rotten climax early on and rides towards it, fulltilt for its entire running time, is a gorgeous look at desire and the repercussions of flippancy, hubris and. Suspiria remake is confounding, punishing, exhausting director luca guadagnino follows up last years call me by your name with a punishing and confounding remake of dario argentos.
A bigger splash 2016 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Btw is luca guadagnino trying to make us believe that dakota johnson can play the same role than jane birkin. An erotically charged thriller in the tradition of patricia highsmith, claude chabrol, and henrigeorges clouzot, the swimming pool stars alain delon and romy schneider as a. Very interesting to see the different takes on this quadrangular story of love and murder between the original and the remake. Like the swimming pool focal point of the film, things on the surface may look bright. Starring charlotte rampling as a highly successful, prematurely dowdy, repressed, english mystery writer, and ludivine sagnier, as maybe, or maybe not, her publishers daughter. An erotically charged thriller in the tradition of patricia highsmith, claude chabrol, and henrigeorges clouzot, the swimming pool stars alain delon and romy. A bigger splash writer david kaiganich on remakes, it.
Domhnall gleeson joins leonardo dicaprios revenant. There are strong echoes too of the identically titled 2003 charlotte rampling picture swimming pool, which had a similar slowburning intensity. Swinton as a rock singer reduced to whispering owing to laryngeal blowout. The 2015 remake a bigger splash is vastly inferior, from the choice of cast to the plot development. However, their idyll is interrupted by an old flame of hers, a fatuous music producer ralph fiennes whos clearly eager to win her back. The last movie for april 2017, watched on a tiring much too hot summer afternoon to take my mind off the heat and life in general. The ingredients are fairly simple in this welcome reissue for a starpowered psychological thri. Romy schneider, alain delon, jane birkin, maurice ronet. Toch heeft deray heel wat knappe maar stilistisch eerder discrete films op zijn palmares staan.
Curious how they hire women directors for these kind of pulp. I bought this set because one of my favourite delon films, le piscine is included. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. Tropez, lovers jeanpaul and marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Luca guadagnino talks making splash, next is suspiria. A bigger splash writer david kajganich on his unique. Luca guadagnino on a bigger splash interview movie news. She came from sweden, went to hollywood, moved to italy, married an italian director. A bigger splash repurposes the basic plot from its predecessor, although luca guadagninos film is more interested in the nuance of characters behaviors than the story arc.
It was the fourth most popular movie at the french box office in 1969. You can watch this full movie free with english subtitles on movie television channels, renting the dvd or with vod services video on demand player, hulu and ppv pay per view, netflix. Le film a fait en 2015 lobjet dune reprise, a bigger splash, realise par luca. A rock star tilda swinton and her younger boyfriend matthias schoenaerts vacation on an island off of sicily while she recovers from throat surgery. I said, yes, but im going to take the basic points. Built on the same narrative foundations and deploying a superficially similar cast of duplicitous dilettantes, a more appropriate word to use might be a reorganising or, to speak in the terms of record producer harry. Luca guadagnino on a bigger splash and preparations for his suspiria remake. Both french and englishlanguage versions of the film were made, with the. The 2016 film a bigger splash, directed by luca guadagnino and starring ralph fiennes, tilda swinton, matthias. Meanwhile, he was also reading scripts to do an american film as a director, and he read a couple. Swinton plays a rock star called marianne, who has retreated to a lush italian island with her lover paul matthias schoenaerts.
With charlotte rampling, charles dance, ludivine sagnier, jeanmarie lamour. It has the occasional scene of sadistic sexual delight, the occasional scene of jealousy, a lot of scenes of longlegged jane birkin and glamourous romy schneider strolling around the swimming pool of the title, while alain delon, at his most alain delon, in open shirts, tight shorts and. Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine. Their love triangle is further complicated by the presence of the producers gorgeous daughter dakota. Bergman was a real diva, and we wanted marianne to be as much of a diva. Set in summertime on the cote dazur, it is a drama of sexual jealousy and possessiveness. How luca guadagnino restyled a 60s cult film to be a. Marianne romy schneider and jeanpaul alain delon holiday on the sweltering french riviera in a handsome villa. Both french and englishlanguage versions of the film were made, with the actors filmed speaking english for the. Schoenaerts pecs, johnsons torso, fiennes smile and even swintons feet are all monuments to be worshipped as much as the cool, blue mediterranean sea or the imposing volcanic boulders that surround it.
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