Immerse yourself in Jacques Deray’s cult film starring Alain Delon with this La Piscine Poster. Discover a captivating work that reveals tension, passion, and mystery.
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Description of this La Piscine Delon Poster
La Piscine is a 1969 psychological thriller film directed by Jacques Deray, starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, and Jane Birkin.
The film takes place in the summer on the French Riviera and deals with sexual jealousy and possessiveness. The film was shot in French and English, with the actors filmed in English for the international release, which was unusual at a time when films were always dubbed or subtitled. The international version, running 114 minutes, is shorter than the French version and is slightly differently edited.
Jean-Paul, a writer, and Marianne, his partner of just over two years, are vacationing at a friend’s villa near Saint-Tropez. There is a tension in their relationship that excites Marianne: the film begins with a scene where they are together by the villa’s pool and she encourages him to scratch her back. He complies, but throws her into the pool and jumps in after her. In a later scene, he picks up a branch and uses it to playfully whip her bare buttocks, but with increasing force as the scene fades out.
Harry, an old friend and record producer who was Marianne’s lover before Jean-Paul, arrives for a visit and surprises the couple by bringing his 18-year-old daughter, Penelope, whose existence they were unaware of. Marianne, without asking Jean-Paul’s opinion, invites Harry and Penelope to stay.
The four stay together, and Harry draws Marianne closer to him as the days go by. Mocking Jean-Paul, who has given up serious writing to work in advertising, Harry drinks heavily and throws a surprise party while Jean-Paul, who has recovered from alcoholism, remains sober. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that Penelope neither loves nor respects her father, whom she barely knew during her childhood. She and Jean-Paul become closer and spend a day alone at the seaside.
That evening, while the women are asleep, a drunken Harry confronts Jean-Paul and accuses him of seducing Penelope to take revenge for his own weaknesses on his more successful friend. While trying to hit Jean-Paul, Harry falls into the pool and is too drunk to swim. Jean-Paul, who has also been drinking, initially prevents him from getting out of the water, then deliberately pushes Harry underwater and holds him there until he drowns. He covers up the crime by undressing Harry and placing new pants and a new shirt by the pool to make it look like an accident.
After the funeral, a police officer, Inspector Lévêque, visits the house several times. He confides in Marianne the reasons why he doubts the accident theory: Harry was wearing his expensive, non-waterproof watch, and there are no traces of sweat on the clothes he was supposed to be wearing. When she talks to Jean-Paul about it, he confesses everything, and she goes to see Harry’s clothes, hidden in the cellar, which would have betrayed him. But when she doesn’t bring this evidence to the police, the inspector reluctantly suspends the investigation.
Marianne accompanies Penelope to the airport and takes her back to her mother’s house. When Penelope demands the truth about her father’s death, Marianne assures her that it was indeed an accident. She and Jean-Paul are about to leave the villa when she tells him they won’t be leaving together. She calls a taxi, but he places his hand on the phone, cutting off her call and silencing her. Ultimately, neither of them leaves that day, and in the film’s final shot, they stand side by side, looking out the window at the pool, and then kiss.