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A Bigger Splash (2015)

Drama | 125 minutes
2,86 391 votes

Genre: Drama / Mystery

Duration: 125 minuten

Country: Italy / France / United States

Directed by: Luca Guadagnino

Stars: Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Dakota Johnson

IMDb score: 6,4 (36.191)

Releasedate: 26 November 2015

A Bigger Splash plot

An American couple, consisting of a rock star and a filmmaker, are on holiday in the south of Italy. However, their peace is disturbed by the sudden visit of an old friend and his beautiful daughter. This leads to jealousy that creates risky scenarios.

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JJ_D

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A movie that breathes sex. From bare bellies to bare breasts. From slippery snakes to blistering heat. From growing old with a loaded past to being young again through the presence of a challenging adolescent.

Relationships come under pressure from biological and psychological demons. Can you suppress it? In a merciless landscape like this? Between the unmerciful beauty of young and old flesh? Luca Guadagnino shows it all. He doesn't hide anything. Or just enough to give 'A Bigger Splash' the touch of mystery the movie needs.

Actually everything is unreal. Refugees are flooding the country in search of the very dignity that is rightfully theirs. What takes place indoors almost seems like a decadent luxury drama. Yet it is not. After all, rock stars also struggle with their choices, their desires, their obligations. After all, partners of rock stars also have a cross to bear. After all, successful producers also have a two-sided character, which can turn from amiable and amusing in no time to the complete opposite: destructive and manipulative. And their daughters also have their own agenda. Against the background of a bone-dry Lampedusa, Guadagnino completely undresses his characters. Their naked truth is at once disarming and incomprehensible – so private that the plot itself is simple, suggesting an unknowable underlying history.

Does the sum of all that make 'A Bigger Splash' a great film? Or should the spectator this time ask himself whether Guadagnino has tried to make something that should be experienced as “pleasant”?

Cinema that does not serve the taste of the public, but on the contrary challenges it. Doesn't the effort alone deserve praise?

3.25*

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blurp194

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Tension about action, and also something of form about content.

Perhaps I should start by saying that Tilda Swinton is pretty much my favorite actress, and she also has a very interesting role here - the singer who has lost her voice, in a film that mainly focuses on the interactions between the relationship collision course reclining holidaymakers. That also produces a lot of beautiful scenes. And about as interesting is the almost unrecognizable Fiennes who plays a very different type of character than we're used to from him - very handsome, and I always think that's the mark of a really good actor, that you are occasionally surprised in this way. I am significantly less impressed by Schoenaerts and Johnson, although that is also due to their somewhat smaller roles - Johnson in particular does not have much more to do than look brooding, she does that quite well, by the way, but the few scenes I thought those more questions were a bit mediocre.

So far mainly positive, and the build-up of the tension and the way in which the complications pile up, actually there is no pin in between. Except that it is a bit slow and slow here and there. And well, with the exception of the event with the refugees - that may well be intended to incite the contradiction between refugee and holidaymaker, but it doesn't really come out, and the plot device at the end where the refugees then act as a potential Excuse is too flimsy to hang their presence on it. It strikes me as an overly sought-after and insufficiently developed part.

That makes the film a bit too elitist here and there. Just on the verge of, so to speak. Fortunately, there are no chapter titles.

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De filosoof

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A Bigger Splash (2015)

Most of the movie is terribly dull and slow: nothing interesting happens and you're all the while watching a man who talks too much and a woman who doesn't talk on a vacation island exchanging partners with trips to the beach. local folklore. It is thus a kind of Emanuelle film without the eroticism. Or even worse: with failed eroticism. The protagonists themselves are also only grumpy. When something finally happens, the film finally comes to life a bit, but I didn't like the ending.

Only afterwards do I learn that the director also made Call Me By Your Name, which is indeed the same film: romance on a holiday island with one strong scene (in Call Me By Your Name of course the father's monologue at the end and in A Bigger Splash the fatal scene at/in the pool) but the rest of the movie has nothing to offer.

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