The Swimming Pool: “First Love Never Dies”
La piscine • 1h 59m
Taking advantage of its four lead actors’ multilingual abilities, LA PISCINE was shot simultaneously in French and English near Saint-Tropez, France, from August to October 1968. Presented here is the slightly shorter English-language version of the film, THE SWIMMING POOL: “FIRST LOVE NEVER DIES”—released outside of France in 1969. For it, director Jacques Deray made his edits based on performances, rather than doing a shot-by-shot re-creation of the French version.
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Agnès Vincent-Deray, the widow of director Jacques Deray, made this short documentary on the production of LA PISCINE in 2019, on the occasion of that film’s fiftieth anniversary. It features interviews with actors Alain Delon and Jane Birkin as well as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean-...
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LA PISCINE Spanish Ending
Director Jacques Deray and his producers added the brief final shot presented here to LA PISCINE upon its release in Spain in 1969, to appease Franco-era censors upset by its morally ambiguous original ending. The same shot also concludes the English-language version of the film.
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Undressing a Legacy
In this interview, conducted in spring 2021, scholar Nick Rees-Roberts traces the influence of LA PISCINE on the worlds of film and fashion in the half century since its release.
