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La piscine
Title
La piscine / Studio Canal ; SNC, René Pignères et Gérard Beytout présentent ; un film de Jacques Deray ; scénario original de Jean-Emmanuel Conil ; adaptation dialoguée de Jean-Claude Carrière, Jacques Deray ; un co-production Société Nouvelle de Cínematographie Paris, Tritone Film Rome ; producteur délégué, Gerard Beytout.
ISBN
9781681438634
1681438631
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 18 cm).
Medium
4 3/4 in.
stamping
Notes
Title from screen credits.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
4K digital restoration.
Special features: The swimming pool: "First love never dies", the English-language version of the film (119 min.); 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 Spanish ending; trailers.
Director of photography, Jean-Jacques Tarbès ; director of production, Paul Laffargue ; editor, Paul Cayatte ; original music, Michel Legrand.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
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 (Maurice Ronet) and his eighteen-year-old daughter (Jean Birkin)--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.
Variant and related titles
English title from subtitles: Swimming pool
Piscine (Motion picture)
Piscine (Motion picture). English.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
November 19, 2021
Series
The Criterion collection ; 1088
Credits
Director of photography, Jean-Jacques Tarbès ; director of production, Paul Laffargue ; editor, Paul Cayatte ; original music, Michel Legrand.
Cast
Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Suzie Jaspard, Madlybamy, Thierry Chabert, Steve Eckart [that is, Eckardt].
System details note
Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
Unrated.
Videorecording number
CC3281BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Also listed under
Studio Canal, film distributor.
Société nouvelle de cinématographie, production company.
Tritone (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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