The Swimming Pool
The most dangerous love-game ever played
1969 • 123 min • Drama · Thriller
Synopsis
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne 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.
Our family guide
Best from age 16- 100 Reviewers · 1 · 51%
- 70 Audience · 575 · 49%
Jean-Paul and Marianne's idyllic summer holiday in a St. Tropez villa is disrupted by the arrival of her former lover, Harry, and his alluring daughter, Penelope. What begins as simmering tension quickly escalates into a dangerous game of desire, jealousy, and betrayal.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 4/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 6/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Adult themes and situations
- Emotional intensity and infidelity
- Some suggestive attire
What it models well
- Consequences of desire
- Complexity of relationships
Talk about it after
- How jealousy can impact relationships
- The concept of a love triangle
- The legal and moral implications of actions
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Top billed cast
Director: Jacques Deray • Crew: Jean-Claude Carrière, Jacques Deray
Trailers & clips
La piscine | 4K restoration | Official trailer | Lumière
The Swimming Pool (1969) Original Trailer [FHD]
La Piscine - Trailer
Reviewer notes
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersNow if I was on holiday with my partner enjoying the sunshine, the swimming pool and plenty of sex, I don’t think I’d be very impressed at the arrival of their ex-lover and his teenage daughter. Even more inexplicably, it seems that “Marianne” (Romy Schneider) has actually invited “Harry” (Maurice Ronet) and “Pénélope” (Jane Birkin) to share the villa with the perplexed “Jean-Paul” (Alain Delon).…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.0/10 (575)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- IMDb
- tt0064816