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A Bigger Splash

2015

Luca Guadagnino

Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tilda Swinton ...

5.9

4,131

Drama Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of delirious nostalgia from which there can be no rescue.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"The film feels empty and intellectualized at the core, where it should feel powerfully emotional"	NEU
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"A meandering character study (...) What A Bigger Splash does have in its favor is standout acting by Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton, who gets to channel her inner Ziggy Stardust (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A cocktail of intense emotions, transcendent surroundings and unexpected detours. A real pleasure. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Everything in this spellbinding erotic dance is so ripe and voluptuous that watching it doesn't seem enough, you want to take a bite out of it (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"It’s a shimmering tank of romance, jealously and intrigue. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"'A Bigger Splash' is an enjoyable slice of sunshine noir (...) The cast are all good value, but if there's a standout it has to be Fiennes in the kind of role we've never really seen from him before"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"There’s a lot more than just sun and sex teeming beneath the glistening surface of Luca Guadagnino’s 'A Bigger Splash' (...) the pic’s off-kilter casting invites a sense of wild unpredictability to the proceedings"	POS
United Kingdom	Damon Wise Empire	"Ralph Fiennes dazzles as a rock’n’roll maverick in a stylish, unorthodox erotic drama that tries hard but fails to maintain its eccentric momentum (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"Luca Guadagnino has made something rare and disconcerting: a genuinely pagan film"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A lush and intriguing experience that works so well for so long that it can't be undone by a few flaws"	POS

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