The Swimmer

Part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film
Presented by Cinelogue

Dropping by a pool party, Ned Merrill notices the series of backyard pools that populate his well-off suburb and decides that he’d like to travel the eight miles back to his home via them.

From the moment Lancaster dives into a shimmering pool of clear water he gives one of the finest performances of his career.

A signature late 1960s film, replete with small doses of surrealism and phantasmagoria, The Swimmer perfectly captures the death of the American Dream.

'As do few movies, The Swimmer stays in the memory like an echo that never quite disappears' - Vincent Canby, New York Times

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