DVD
La piscine = The swimming pool
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (122 minutes) : DVD sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
"The bright sun of the French Riviera is deceptive in this alluring work of slow-burn suspense from thriller specialist Jacques Deray and legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. Formerly one of European cinema's 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 summer vacation on the Côte d'Azur is interrupted by the arrival of an old acquaintance and his eighteen-year-old daughter--unleashing a gathering wave of sexual tension, jealousy, and sudden violence. A paragon of 1960s modernist cool thanks to the effortlessly chic clothes and a loungy Michel Legrand score, La piscine dives deep to reveal sinister undercurrents roiling beneath its seductive surfaces"--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; 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 Carrère 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 ; alternate ending ; trailers ; new English subtitle translation.