La Piscine
Rialto Pictures | Release Date: August 1, 1970 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesGlenn Kenny
Pretty people behaving poorly in beautiful settings is something we don’t see as much of in cinema as we used to. This is a master class in the subgenre, and one of unusual depth. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
Erotic languour turns gradually into fear and then horror in this gripping and superbly controlled psychological thriller from 1969. Read full review
80
Time OutTrevor Johnston
This is a deliciously languid, slinkily unsettling affair. Read full review
80
Total FilmTom Dawson
An intriguing forerunner to François Ozon’s Swimming Pool, it’s languidly paced and elegantly lensed, though its prize asset is Delon/ Schneider’s sexual sizzle. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJoshua Katzman
Famous in its day for reuniting real-life former lovers Alain Delon and Romy Schneider on-screen, this forgotten 1968 psychological thriller by Jacques Deray deserves to be rediscovered for its darkly sensual story. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
The film is never just some glassy exercise in the idly loaded’s languorous cruelty, though. In each magnetic performance (especially Schneider’s), in the sparse but piquant lines from the script co-written with the great, recently departed screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (working from an Alain Page story), and in Deray’s attention to emotional humidity, lies something resolutely curious about human frailty in relationships. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineKeith Watson
La Piscine is, more than anything else, a work of vivid sensory delights. Read full review
60
CineVuePatrick Gamble
With little action taking place for the majority of the film, this slow boiling story is more of an insightful character study than a heart pounding thriller. Read full review
50
The New YorkerRichard Brody
The movie is so tautly constructed that not a single idea can seep in; it’s a mechanism made with an eye to spare elegance so obsessive that it runs without functioning, like a watch without hands. Read full review
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