The Swimming Pool (1969)
Directed by Jacques Deray · Cinematography by Jean-Jacques Tarbès
16+122 min56 frames
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The most dangerous love-game ever played
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What is The Swimming Pool about?
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
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What does the cinematography of The Swimming Pool look like?
Across 55 sampled frames, The Swimming Pool builds its coverage from medium shots (62% of the sample), with close-ups (18%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Jean-Jacques Tarbès keeps 64% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 76% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1960s.
What is the color palette of The Swimming Pool?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Swimming Pool (1969) are #33312d, #ece6d3, #cfae8d, #d6d3cc, #534c48, #131413 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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