La Piscine

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La Piscine ★★ The Swimming Pool; The Sinners 1969

Jean-Paul (Delon) and his wife Marianne (Schneider) are on vacation at a villa near St. Tropez. Marianne invites her ex-lover Harry (Ronet) and his teenaged daughter Penelope (Birkin) to join them and the foursome spend most of their time lounging around the pool. But tensions develop and the consequences are dramatic when Jean-Paul decides to seduce the nubile Penelope. French with subtitles. 120m/C DVD . FR Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin; D: Jacques Deray; W: Jacques Deray, Jean-Claude Carriere; C: Jean-Jacques Tarbes; M: Michel Legrand.

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