Watch The Swimming Pool For Free

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

A sumptuous idyll in the South of France. Still air. Full Mediterranean sun. One pool. Two lovers. Two guests - one, an old acquaintance to one and a former lover to another, the other his daughter, a mystery to all. The rest is a well controlled drama of hedonism, sensuality, eroticism, sexual longing, anxiety and unfulfillment. Compacted these all lead to a weakness for one and their dastardly deed. A film so slow moving, and as enervating as the heat of the sun over the villa, could easily be hard viewing. But, the camera loves these beautiful chic people and the intrigue they create.

We can only buy the NTSC VHS released in French Canada in 1970's.......Alain Delon plays a French writer having an affair with Romy Schneider, a successful journalist. At a swimming pool in St. Tropez......a record executive (Maurice Ronet) arrives with his nubile young daughter (Jane Birkin). Harry and Marianne were once lovers and he makes a pass at her. Meanwhile, Jean-Paul makes a pass at Harry's daughter. After some drinking, Harry and Jean-Paul fight, resulting in Harry being pushed into the pool and drowns......the young couple tries to get their stories straight in order to avoid being charged with murder in this sometimes masochistic feature from France.....French Language Jacket and the version we find in Quebec is French Language with No English Subtitles.....Running Time is 2 Hours 03 Minutes.....We no longer buy ex-rentals because most have been tampered with......

After ten years .Their last and only movie together(Schneider had only a cameo in "plein soleil")was "Christine".That movie helped Delon become a star when his partner was famous (the "Sissi saga").But Schneider's career ran into difficulties when she tried to get rid of her image of a very nice Austrian empress.And in the late sixties ,when her success was waning,Delon returned the favor,in a gentlemanly manner.He was right:Schneider soon gained critical acclaim again and became one of the biggest actresses of the seventies in France till her tragic death.We still miss her now.And Maurice Ronet too."La piscine" is a psychological detective story.There are only four characters well portrayed by the four leads.Almost all the action takes place around a pool (hence the title) in the middle of a desirable villa(I wish I could spend my vacation here).Tempers rise as it appears that Jean-Paul (Delon) is a wash-out professionally and that his guest (Ronet)is a show-off ,and Jean-Paul's lover's (Schneider) 'ex -partner.It's a cat and mouse play,not always original ,but where the actors can display their skills.The murder can remind people of "plein soleil" ,mainly because it's the same actors.

This film about surface and inner passion (derangement, fear, etc...obviously symbolized by the pool) is a pleasure, mostly through the performances of Alain Delon and Romy Schneider. Most of the plot lies under the surface and there are many scenes where one must read between the lines to understand where everything will lead to. Okay, the film could have been a bit shorter, but the actors in my opinion really make up for it. We've seen everything now in the movies - but still, the opening sequence is one of the hottest scenes ever filmed. I cannot explain, see it yourself.