La piscine

“So this movie, La piscine. This movie will make you want to move to France. Certainly at the beginning. The beautiful thing about this film is it’s all about what… kind of what isn’t said, and, like, all the subtext and all the energies that are happening between the characters. By the end of the movie, you will not want to move to France.”

“La piscine, obviously. This is one of my favorite films. Romy Schneider.”

“When I was a very young au pair girl, I was on duty one evening and I watched La piscine, with Jane Birkin, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet again! And Alain Delon. And it was just one of the most extraordinary, tense, really frightening films because it was so… everything was so beautiful, and yet there was this awful lurking tension. One of the sort of bricks in my film Education, I guess.”

“You guys have swimming pools? La piscine, Alain Delon, incredible film.”

“This movie, down to the score and down to the trailer for it, it's a feast for the eyes and it also has sort of a little bit of a noir storyline to it. It's got a lot of intrigue and you never know what to expect but there's just the camera work is so stunning. It's just like looking at a beautiful painting that you never want to tear your eyes from. But also again, all these elements all at play at the same time in La piscine.”

“It is so great and I have to show it to my children so I'm taking this. La piscine. First of all, I love La piscine, second I love Romy Schneider and third I just released the film Corsage which I did because I wanted Romy Schneider to have like a, I don't know, not a vengeance but it's like I felt like I want to give her the opportunity to play like she never was allowed to play to misbehave because in the film I misbehave as an actress and I think Romy Schneider always wanted to misbehave.”