But Bigger Splash has nothing to do with painter David Hockney's mammoth painting, except for sunlit swimming pools, cloudless skies and splashes of water as actors jump into it. Among them is Dakota Johnson, who, like in Fifty Shades of Grey, also puts her charms on display in this film. Therefore, this Italian-French mystery black comedy leans somewhat more, but still loosely, on the film La Piscine, also an Italian-French production from 1969.
In the movie A Bigger Splash in addition to Dakota Johnson, they also perform Tilda Swinton (We need to talk about Kevin), Ralph Fiennes (Grand Hotel Budapest) and Matthias Schoenaerts (The Drop). Luca Guadagnino's film, which is a kind of remake of a psychosexual film La Piscine with Alain Delon (this time Matthias Schoenaerts) and Romy Schneider (this time Tilda Swinton), Jande Birkin and Maurice Ronet, is extremely strange and at the same time extremely funny.
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The film is about a famous couple, Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) and Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts), a rock star and a filmmaker, who are on vacation on the idyllic and remote Italian island of Pantelleria, when they get an unexpected visit from an old friend (Ralph Fiennes) and his daughter (Dakota Johnson). This plunges them into a carousel of jealousy, passion and danger for all involved.
Crime, drama, black comedy, mystery
A Bigger Splash
(France, Italy 2015)
Direction: Luca Guadagnino. They play: Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Aurora Clement, Corrado Guzzanti, Lily McMenamy, Elena Bucci.
In the cinema from November 26, 2015.
