Synopsis
An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.
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Cast
- Tilda SwintonMarianne Lane
- Matthias SchoenaertsPaul De Smedt
- Ralph FiennesHarry Hawkes
- Dakota JohnsonPenelope Lanier
- Corrado GuzzantiMaresciallo
- Alessandro FerraraCarabiniere 1
- David MaddalenaCarabiniere 2
- Salvatore GabrieleMayor
- Livio Franco BlandinoRestaurant Owner
- Aurore ClémentMireille
Recommendations
- 80
CineVue
The acting throughout is superb, with Swinton sitting back and watching with obvious pleasure as Fiennes gnaws up the scenery and beach furniture with genuine vim. Schoenaerts once again proves himself a charismatic and compelling actor alongside the excellent Johnson. - 80
The Guardian
As with I Am Love, Guadagnino has put together something utterly distinctive here, a cocktail of intense emotions, transcendent surroundings and unexpected detours. A real pleasure. - 80
The Telegraph
In the dramatic stakes, the dining table comes a distant second to the swimming pool: a place to undress, bask, flirt, vie for attention, compete, cool off and burn. It’s a shimmering tank of romance, jealously and intrigue, and A Bigger Splash plunges into the deep end. - 80
Time Out London
It's an endearingly loopy, occasionally half-cooked but always ambitious film. - 80
Variety
For Guadagnino, it’s not the characters’ fates that matter so much as their dynamics, which Kajganich and the director manipulate with the sort of take-no-prisoners attitude typically reserved for theater, pushing the entire ensemble to their full potential. - 80
TheWrap
It’s a lush and intriguing experience that works so well for so long that it can’t be undone by a few flaws. - 75
The Playlist
Its very wonkiness is one of the things that makes A Bigger Splash a good time — the sense of a filmmaker, perhaps aware that the story he's telling is not terribly deep or philosophically provocative, allowing himself to go off the rails every now and then in how he's telling it. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
The film feels empty and intellectualized at the core, where it should feel powerfully emotional.
