A Bigger Splash

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A Bigger Splash is a dramatic thriller from Italian director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, Melissa P.). The film, with a plot loosely based on the 1969 film La Piscine, premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival where it won two minor prizes. Starring in the film are Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, and Dakota Johnson.

Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue. A BIGGER SPLASH is a sensuous portrait of desire, jealousy and rock and roll, under the Mediterranean sun.

“In A BIGGER SPLASH,” explains Guadagnino, “I envisioned a film about love, beauty, desire, sex, sexuality and the danger of an old lover who by his own presence and actions can trigger destructive behavior and bring back the pasts of our lead characters. And by unleashing this past, our characters are drawn into their truest version of themselves and enter a tangled nexus of sex and burning desire, pushing them to a dark side.”

A Bigger Splash is rated 14A.