La piscine
(DVD)

Wide screen (1.66:1).

Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.

4K digital restoration.

Special features: The swimming pool: "First love never dies", the English-language version of the film (119 min.); Fifty years later, a 2019 documentary by Agnès Vincent-Deray, featuring actors Alain Delon and Jane Birkin, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrère and novelist Jean-Emmanuel Conil; new interview with scholar Nick Rees-Roberts on the film's cinematic and aesthetic legacy; archival footage featuring Delon, Birkin, actors, Romy Schneider and Maurice Ronet, and director Jacques Deray; alternate Spanish ending; trailers.

Director of photography, Jean-Jacques Tarbès ; director of production, Paul Laffargue ; editor, Paul Cayatte ; original music, Michel Legrand.

Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Suzie Jaspard, Madlybamy, Thierry Chabert, Steve Eckart [that is, Eckardt].

"The bright sun of the French Riviera is deceptive in this alluring work of slow-burn suspense from thriller specialist Jacques Deray and legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. Formerly one of European cinema's most iconic real-life couples, Alain Delon and Romy Schneider reunited for this film, bringing a palpable erotic chemistry to their performances as the bronzed and beautiful vacationers whose summer vacation on the Côte d'Azur is interrupted by the arrival of an old acquaintance (Maurice Ronet) and his eighteen-year-old daughter (Jean Birkin)-- unleashing a gathering wave of sexual tension, jealousy, and sudden violence. A paragon of 1960s modernist cool thanks to the effortlessly chic clothes and a loungy Michel Legrand score, La piscine dives deep to reveal sinister undercurrents roiling beneath its seductive surfaces"--Container.

Unrated.

DVD; region 1; NTSC; wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); Dolby monaural.

French dialogue with optional English subtitles.