Don’t forget The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster’s brilliant version of a John Cheever short story. Also features a very young Joan Rivers and uncredited directorial input from Sydney Pollack. They did things differently in 1968…
But I loved Swimming Pool, but that might have been because Ludivine Sagnier spends most of it naked…
And there is something magical about swimming pools, isn’t there? A body of blue water contained and constrained within walls yet looking more like the sea than the sea itself does. Perfect, as you suggest, Luke, for the magic of cinema to exploit.
Thank you. Not one to watch in your 20s. Nodded off at the back of the Curzon Mayfair. When it first came out. But how perceptions change over time! Can I persuade you to have a rethink?
Don’t forget The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster’s brilliant version of a John Cheever short story. Also features a very young Joan Rivers and uncredited directorial input from Sydney Pollack. They did things differently in 1968…
But I loved Swimming Pool, but that might have been because Ludivine Sagnier spends most of it naked…
And there is something magical about swimming pools, isn’t there? A body of blue water contained and constrained within walls yet looking more like the sea than the sea itself does. Perfect, as you suggest, Luke, for the magic of cinema to exploit.
You can read my thoughts on The Swimmer here: https://lukehoney.substack.com/p/the-swimmer-1968
Oh! Will do, Luke…thanks!
And p.s. I'm itching to write about La Piscine (1969), but I don't think it's available on digital download?
And how about Deep End, with Jane Asher? Have you seen that curious little oddity?
Great critique... (and I don't even like this film...)
Thank you. Not one to watch in your 20s. Nodded off at the back of the Curzon Mayfair. When it first came out. But how perceptions change over time! Can I persuade you to have a rethink?