A Bigger Splash

Director: Luca Guadagnino

2015 / 125min / DCP

Reunited with the star of his 2009 I Am Love, Tilda Swinton, Guadagnino produced this tense, elegant sun-splashed psychological drama inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 La Piscine and the work of David Hockney. It’s head games a-plenty at an isolated villa on a Sicilian island where Swinton’s celebrity rocker has holed away with her troubled lover, Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts), rendered mute by recent surgery, and her old flame, Harry (Ralph Fiennes), who’s barged onto the scene with a previously unknown daughter (Dakota Johnson) in tow, as well as mysterious motives. Languidly sensual and sinister, with a superb Swinton channeling a combination of Bowie and Marianne Faithfull.

Part of Summer at Sea