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The Swimming Pool

"The most dangerous love-game ever played"

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.

Top Cast

  • Alain Delon

    Alain Delon

    Jean-Paul

  • Romy Schneider

    Romy Schneider

    Marianne

  • Maurice Ronet

    Maurice Ronet

    Harry

  • Jane Birkin

    Jane Birkin

    Penelope

  • Paul Crauchet

    Paul Crauchet

    L'inspecteur Lévêque

  • Suzie Jaspard

    Suzie Jaspard

    Emilie

  • Maddly Bamy

    Maddly Bamy

    La mulâtre

  • Thierry Chabert

    Thierry Chabert

    Un ami

  • Steve Eckardt

    Steve Eckardt

    Fred

Overview

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.

Rating

7.0 / 10
572 Reviews
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    7 Sep 25, 2025

    Now 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). It might be revenge or it might just be lust, but fairly swiftly the nose-out-of-joint “Jean-Paul” is becoming fond of the daughter whilst her father rather openly reminisces about and flirts with “Marianne”. With the sun shining and the booze flowing freely, tensions start to rises as the green eyed monster rears it’s ugly head in an increasingly toxic fashion. It’s a story about the fickleness of human relationships, about the shallowness of beauty and the temporary nature of “love”, and all four here exemplify the evils of temptation compellingly. The writing delivers quite a sparing, but potent, dialogue that conveys the crescendoing emotions enjoyably whilst the photography captures a lot of the beauty of their piscine and their glistening bodies. The tail-end reminded me a little of JB Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” as detective “Lévêque” (Paul Crauchet) tries to fathom the unfathomable. This is one of those films that glows, and it has a classiness to it.

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