Luca Guadagnino: A Bigger Splash
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Luca Guadagnino: A Bigger Splash

Luca Guadagnino, A Bigger Splash, 2015. Photo courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures, © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

The dramatic second installment in Guadagnino’s Desire trilogy again features Tilda Swinton, this time as a famous Bowie-like rock star vacationing on a remote Italian island with her filmmaker lover. Their peaceful, passionate bliss erupts when a charismatic record producer/ex-lover (Ralph Fiennes) shows up with a mysterious 22-year-old “daughter” (Dakota Johnson). This powerfully acted psychological thriller follows the free-spirited group as their spontaneous, intimate horrors of honesty, lust, and impulse play out in heavenly, idyllic seclusion. Based on Jacques Deray’s 1969 film La Piscine. 2015, DCP, 125 min.

  • This Dialogue and Retrospective program is made possible by generous support from Anita Kunin and the Kunin Family.