Tag: Jacques Deray

A Bigger Splash on Blu + Update on Updates

A Bigger Splash on Blu + Update on Updates

September 6, 2016 | By

Review of A Bigger Splash (2015) from Fox, the second and ‘splashiest’ remake of Jacques Deray’s sun-dried drama of quiet indiscretions, La Piscine (1969) + an update of no internet for another week, courtesy of Bell.

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BR: Bigger Splash, A (2015)

BR: Bigger Splash, A (2015)

September 6, 2016 | By

If Luca Guadagnino’s poolside film of jealousies and an underage temptress seems a little familiar to connoisseurs of Jacques Deray’s La Piscine / The Swimming Pool (1969), it’s not an homage but the second remake of Deray’s classic drama (after Francois Ozon’s 2003 Swimming Pool) where repressed emotions and insinuations explode in a peculiarly restrained event that’s still tragic, but a little darkly comedic…

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DVD: Piscine, La / The Swimming Pool (1969)

DVD: Piscine, La / The Swimming Pool (1969)

December 15, 2012 | By

  Film: Very Good DVD Transfer: Very Good DVD Extras:  n/a Label: Lionsgate (U.S.) – Maple (Canada) Region: 1 (NTSC) Released: March 25, 2008 Genre: Mystery / Thriller Synopsis: The idyllic vacation of a pretty couple is irreparably damaged when an old friend arrives with his jail bait daughter. Special Features: n/a     Review: […]

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