Swimming Home

2024

Comedy / Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 13 reviews
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 559 559

Director

Justin Anderson Photo
Justin Anderson

Top cast

Mackenzie Davis Photo
Mackenzie Davis as Isabel
Nadine Labaki Photo
Nadine Labaki as Laura
Ariane Labed Photo
Ariane Labed as Kitti
Christopher Abbott Photo
Christopher Abbott as Joe
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880.01 MB
1280*766
English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 4
1.76 GB
1804*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  bg  cz  hr  hu  mk  pl  ro  sl  sr  
25 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by derek-duerden 4 / 10

Not Quite as Bad as "Black Bear"...

... but heading that way. I'm now really not inclined to watch anything else with Christopher Abbott in a major role. Here he is just inert and sucks the energy out of every scene he's in. Mind you, the rest of the cast don't really step into the breach and I was very bored with this long before the end. There's a blankness to everyone (apart from Laura) - even the naked angel of death herself.I have to believe that the book is much better (or why would anyone bother to make this film?) but I'm guessing that there's a lot of interior dialogue there that just doesn't translate to the screen.The most fun I had was waiting for the regular passing of the "ponyland" advertising car - and even that was undermined somewhat by them actually going there eventually.Don't bother.
Reviewed by eli_tza 2 / 10

Great cinematography, tedious movie

Reviewed by johannes2000-1 2 / 10

Pretentious, unfathomable and annoying

I was intrigued by the synopsis, but it turned out as a disappointment. Probably director and (co-)writer Justin Anderson had the sincere intention to make a moving, tension-filled drama about a waning relationship, but the chosen form was at best enigmatic; or to put it more frankly: pretentious, tedious and increasingly irritating.The pace is extremely slow; the narrative (as far as it is discernible) is constantly interrupted by scenes that seem to be completely at odds with it, (like extensive sequences where dancers perform almost gymnastic routines, or a random naked man on a boat); the main characters (Isabel and Joe) talk in riddles and behave totally erratic; and the score is annoyingly bleak. The only positive thing is the photography, but that was greatly helped by the wonderful light and beautiful surroundings on this (I guess) Greek island.The woman Kitti, who is found as an uninvited guest, drifting in the pool of the unhappy couple, walks around the premise stark naked for most of the time - sure, she has a beautiful body, but it very much impressed as deliberately provocative; her role as an erotic temptress could as easily have been achieved with a sexy bikini. Another example of such obvious trying to be provocative: a weird and extremely cringey peeing-scene, that almost made me gasp in disbelief!Main character Joe reveals halfway into the movie a traumatic background (apparently he was once a child-fugitive from the Balkan), and then there's suddenly the suggestion of Kitti being some sort of angelic messenger who has come to persuade Joe to go home, wherever this "home" might be (maybe even "death"), - at least, that's what I made of it all.Watching this film I only got more and more puzzled and weary and annoyed. I know, maybe my too simple brain should be blamed, stupidly missing out on tons of profound metaphors. Or could there be something seriously amiss with the way the makers have told and pictured their story? In my humble opinion it's definitely the latter.
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