Swimming Home

2024

1 hr. 39 min.

Drama

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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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Justin Anderson

Director

Christopher Abbott

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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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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

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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

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Leonardo Goi

The Film Stage

Swimming Home kicks off as a simmering psycho-sexual thriller in the vein of Jacques Deray’s 1969 La Piscine––or its 2015 remake by Luca Guadagnino, A Bigger Splash––only to trade that initial disquiet for something far more turgid.

Rated: C

Feb 12, 2024

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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
Screenwriter: Justin Anderson
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English