La Piscine [The Swimming Pool]

Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Jane Birkin (starring)
Jacques Deray (director, screenwriter)
Jean-Claude Carrière, Alain Page (screenwriters)

Paris: Gamma, Circa 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing Romy Schneider and Alain Delon swimming together on the set. Gamma stamp crediting photographer J.P. Bonnotte on the verso, along with layout annotations in manuscript pencil.

A searing, psychologically complex erotic thriller set in the dead of summer at a villa on the Côte d'Azur. A couple's holiday is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover and his beautiful teenage daughter—with violent consequences. Co-written by noted screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, who penned some of Luis Buñuel's finest work.

Shot on location at Côte d'Azur and Saint-Tropez, France.

12 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 1088. Grant France.


[Book #169582]