La Piscine

Posted 27 October 2007 in Screening log

Rating

1969 - France

Director
Jacques Deray

Starring
Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Jane Birkin

Somewhat stiff, occasionally smutty but generally unerotic, rather lazy crime “thriller”? I liked it, but the thing doesn’t move and the characters couldn’t be less compelling.

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