A Bigger Splash

First Run Features | Release Date: October 5, 1974

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majrougeAug 2, 2020

A Bigger Splash takes its name from a famous painting by David Hockney to which this film is attached. Halfway between documentary and fiction, we witness moments in the artist's life, at the heart of his intimacy and his studio.

The way AA Bigger Splash takes its name from a famous painting by David Hockney to which this film is attached. Halfway between documentary and fiction, we witness moments in the artist's life, at the heart of his intimacy and his studio.

The way A Bigger Splash unfolds his story is disconcerting to say the least. Despite the presence of dialogue scenes, most of the narration is suggestive and passes through the image, which is quite audacious and at the same time confusing since one can find oneself during a good part of the film not understanding what is happening on the screen, between banal conversations, characters contemplating their portrait in painting, Hockney working in his studio, men bathing naked in a swimming pool, an evening in a disco, I could go on and on. There's obviously a common thread that tries as best as possible to hold together all this mess, the romance between Hockney and his lover and the relationship between life and artistic creation, but it's all the more difficult to conceive of the interest of the whole since the hybrid nature of the film means that in the end we don't know what to think about it.

A Bigger Splash offers us some rather photographic shots and interesting forays into the creative process. As for the choice of music, it's again quite curious, I'm thinking in particular of a piece of disturbing mood, which appears several times and whose relevance is not always very clear.

This film is particularly hard to notice. Well, it's always a bit like that, but it's even more so here. As an indication, I would put a 5, because I can't say it's bad, any more than I can say it's good. In the end, I came out of it without really knowing what I had just watched, what was the intention and finally what was the point. A Bigger Splash might appeal to David Hockney fans, but it's certainly not a film for everyone.… Expand

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