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Swimming Home

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Joe and Isabel’s marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their holiday villa, is invited to stay. Kitti collects and eats poisonous plants, and Nina their teenage daughter is enthralled by her. What kind of relief can Kitti provide for this family in crisis? Swimming Home is a surreal and darkly comic journey into the unresolved traumas that lurk in the shadows of all our lives.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Every tedious arthouse cliché is lovingly embraced in a film that begins in unintentional parody mode, with symbolic shots of slow-mo waves, body parts... and discordant music plink-plonking across the soundtrack. Rated: 1/5 Apr 28, 2025 Full Review Wendy Ide Screen International May be better suited to its original form as a novel than to the slightly scattershot approach of this film. Still, there’s a disconcerting, jarring quality to the story that is hard to shake... Feb 1, 2024 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian Lugubrious, laborious and ridiculous – this movie version of Deborah Levy’s celebrated novel Swimming Home is frankly uncomfortable in the most wrong way possible. Rated: 2/5 Feb 1, 2024 Full Review David Parkinson Radio Times Similarly, stylistic borrowings from the likes of Theorem (1968), La Piscine (1969) and Swimming Pool (2003) ensure this slow-burning saga exerts a disconcerting fascination. Rated: 3/5 Jul 11, 2025 Full Review Joe Muldoon Battle Royale With Cheese By the time the credits roll, you’ll probably be wondering what Swimming Home is really about. And I’m not particularly left caring enough to find out. Jun 7, 2025 Full Review Jennie Kermode Eye for Film A highly mannered approach, a staccato script and deliberate emotional distance mean that the drama never really comes alive, but the whole thing looks and sounds divine. Rated: 2.5/5 Apr 29, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Justin Anderson

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Christopher Abbott

Actor

Mackenzie Davis

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Ariane Labed

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Nadine Labaki

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Freya Hannan-Mills

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Synopsis Joe and Isabel’s marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their holiday villa, is invited to stay. Kitti collects and eats poisonous plants, and Nina their teenage daughter is enthralled by her. What kind of relief can Kitti provide for this family in crisis? Swimming Home is a surreal and darkly comic journey into the unresolved traumas that lurk in the shadows of all our lives.
Director
Justin Anderson
Producer
Andrew Starke, Giorgos Karnavas, Emily Morgan, Marcos Tellechea, Paula Linhares
Screenwriter
Justin Anderson
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 39m