Swimming Home

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Swimming Home

2024

1h 39m

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.

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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Hayley Croke

Loud and Clear Reviews

By the second act, the artistic vision of Justin Anderson completely envelopes the film, leaving the actors stranded in time as the audience waits for the film to settle back into itself. Spoiler alert: it never does.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 9, 2024

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Marshall Shaffer

The Playlist

Like many a freshman director leaping the big screen, Anderson’s approach to directing proves overly deferential to his actors.

Rated: C-

Dec 7, 2024

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Abe Friedtanzer

Cinema Daily US

Though its conclusion may leave some confused or displeased, this film does still boast strong visuals that make for an alluring experience, portraying a landscape that anyone would want to visit even if the people within it feel treacherous.

Rated: B-

Jul 27, 2024

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Giovanni Lago

Next Best Picture

“Swimming Home’s” ostentatious nature is beyond obnoxious. Anderson desperately wants to exude a haunting allure that ends up being neither as intriguing nor as sensually captivating as it thinks it is.

Rated: 3/10

Jun 14, 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
Producer: Andrew Starke, Giorgos Karnavas, Emily Morgan, Marcos Tellechea, Paula Linhares
Screenwriter: Justin Anderson
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 39m