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La Piscine
A ménage à trois stirs passion and jealousy beside a secluded pool in this sultry, French cult-thriller.
Director: Jacques Deray
Overview
Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul take a lazy vacation beside a Hockney-esque sun-splashed swimming pool in St. Tropez. But then Marianne’s ex suddenly drops by with his daughter and a former ménage à trois becomes a ménage à quatre, and deadly consequences loom.
With music by Michel Legrand, a screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière and Deray, and images that will have you hankering for a trip to the Riviera, this is a sensuous, slow-burning cult thriller.
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