Review of A Bigger Splash (2015) by Tony P — 05 Feb 2017
Strange film that I caught up with a few months after the cinema release that I missed.
Remake of a sixties French film La piscine (The Swimming Pool) about a rock star, Marianne Lane played by Tilda Swinton relaxing on their Italian island Pantalleria with her current partner Paul who is rocked when her ex-partner of six years Harry Hawkes (Ralph Fiennes), a rather eccentric music producer arrives on the island with his apparently 22 year old daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson).
Quell a love rectangle as Hawkes and Lane rekindle old sexual interest and Penelope flirts and gets it on with Paul.
It is strange seeing Shakesperian actor Fiennes playing such an eccentric role and even more disturbing to see him parambling around the swimming pool naked.
The volcanic Sardinic island provides great scenery for the Director, Luca Guadagnino and Director of Photography.
What follows over the next 2 hours is a simmering sexual tension as the two new/old couples are formed.
What becomes even more of a shock is the outcome of poor Harry in the swimming pool and the real age of Penelope.
Throughout the film Scottish actress Swinton cannot speak due to a recent operation that threatens her singing voice.
The arrival of Harry and Penelope threatens the very existence shall I say of Marianne and Pauls relationship.
A very rectangular relationship if such a thing exists?
This review of A Bigger Splash (2015) was written by Tony P on 05 Feb 2017.
A Bigger Splash has generally received positive reviews.
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