Burt Lancaster Swimming Pool Movie

Splashing through suburbia with burt lancaster in the swimmer 1968 july 6 2020 by geoff pevere go back.

Burt lancaster swimming pool movie. The swimmer 1968 burt lancaster got himself in impressive shape for this existential drama. Watch it and you will see. Directed by frank perry sydney pollack. The film was written and directed by academy award nominated husband and wife team of eleanor perry screenplay adaptation and frank perry director.

The swimmer is a 1968 american technicolor surreal drama film starring burt lancaster. The story is based on the 1964 short story the swimmer by john cheever which appeared in the july 18 1964 issue of the new yorker. As the swimmer burt lancaster pauses beside each pool his conversations with the owners sound real enough and yet somehow they are very stiff very correct as if everybody were reading lines or this were a dream. Burt lancaster called this movie death of a salesman in swimming trunks.

In an affluent connecticut suburb ned merrill burt lancaster decides to swim home via the pools of his wealthy friends. Revisiting the disturbing summer movie the swimmer fifty years on this prescient take on the american dream starring burt lancaster deserves a deep dive. An offbeat even absurd suburban drama that sees burt lancaster fighting to preserve his illusions while swimming home through his neighbor s pools. Along the way he encounters several women from his past.

Swimming pool movies 1. Ned learns that with the addition of a recent swimming pool in another neighbor s backyard he can literally swim home moving from swimming pool to swimming pool his home which is miles away. Along the way. A cautionary suburban odyssey which measures disillusionment by the pool lengths swum by ned merrill burt lancaster the swimmer is one of the great forgotten head trips of the 1960s a year before it was released hollywood hit countercultural gold with the graduate another sly.

From the initial cocktail party by a pool he vows to swim home swimming pool by swimming pool along what he calls the lucinda river named after his wife setting out in his trunks via the pools of his wealthy friends. He names the route lucinda s river after his wife. He is determined to make this journey despite some obstacles along the way. Burt is the force that holds this film together.

With burt lancaster janet landgard janice rule tony bickley. The epitome of 1960s soul searching cinema the swimmer is the story of one man re evaluating his life and relationships.