Bom-Bane’s Cult Film, Waffle & Ice Cream Club present: The Swimmer (Dir. F. Perry 1968)
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Based on a John Cheever short story, The Swimmer is the tale of a man (Burt Lancaster) who begins at the dawn of a new day to swim in the backyard pool of some friends. As he has a drink with his friends, it occurs to him that a string of other backyard pools reaches all the way across the valley to his own home. Why not swim every one — swim all the way home, as it were? This sounds like a glorious adventure, and indeed it starts that way. He even meets a young woman who agrees to come along on the journey.
As the film moves from morning to dusk, from sunshine to rain, from youth to age and from fantasy to truth, what begins as a perfectly realistic story evolves into something strange, stylised, brilliant and disturbing.
A literary, psychedelic masterpiece that, like the Great Gatsby, offers a devastating portrayal of the American dream.
Based on a John Cheever short story, The Swimmer is the tale of a man (Burt Lancaster) who begins at the dawn of a new day to swim in the backyard pool of some friends. As he has a drink with his friends, it occurs to him that a string of other backyard pools reaches all the way across the valley to his own home. Why not swim every one — swim all the way home, as it were? This sounds like a glorious adventure, and indeed it starts that way. He even meets a young woman who agrees to come along on the journey.
As the film moves from morning to dusk, from sunshine to rain, from youth to age and from fantasy to truth, what begins as a perfectly realistic story evolves into something strange, stylised, brilliant and disturbing.
A literary, psychedelic masterpiece that, like the Great Gatsby, offers a devastating portrayal of the American dream.
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