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Film Description
Burt Lancaster stars as bored suburbanite Ned Merrill, who one summer morning decides to swim home through affluent Connecticut via the pools of his wealthy friends. Beautifully shot, rather bizarre and rather moving.
The Swimmer is as fascinating as any film ever made: the brief flash of our lives played as an allegorical journey through a "river" of blue pools and the beautifully ... more >
The Swimmer is as fascinating as any film ever made: the brief flash of our lives played as an allegorical journey through a "river" of blue pools and the beautifully pristine summer lawns of suburbia; themselves remnants of the swimmer's own not too distant past and the aspirational 1950's. Also enjoy a sensitive, at times mystical performance from Burt Lancaster – corresponding with a soft-focused natural world that becomes a kind of American Elvira Madigan; an idyll soon erased by deeper connections of time, absence and memory. "It's all so fast, so fast..." he notes, wistfully. And perhaps the film itself is a dream...? Perhaps he has already departed and is merely a ghost revisiting the lovers and friends of his life?
The Swimmer leaves one speculating in such manner, asking questions whose answers remain just beyond reach.
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