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The Swimming Pool
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1458
- IMDb #2089
- Rotten Tomatoes #817
- Letterboxd #1336
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1610
- Kinopoisk #1143
Every rating
Everyone agrees
Lowest is IMDb on 71, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 81.
See the most agreed on films →A successful mystery novelist retreats to her publisher's villa in the South of France for solitude. Her peace is shattered by the arrival of his emotionally reckless daughter. The two women form a complex, psychosexual bond filled with tension and jealousy, which culminates in a sudden death that the writer uses as inspiration for her next book.
Details
- Director
- Jacques Deray
- Writers
- Jacques Deray, Jean-Claude Carrière
- Released
- 31 January 1969
- Country
- France, Italy
- Language
- French, English
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Rated
- PG
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