20 Best Indie Movies Of 2016
17. A Bigger Splash
Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s latest film is a simmering, sexy psychological dramedy set on an idyllic Sicilian island and based on Jacques Deray’s 1969 French thriller La Piscine.
Tilda Swinton stars as androgynous rock star Marianne Lane recovering from vocal surgery while on vacation with her suicidal filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) whose peaceful convalescence is disturbed when her old flame and Paul’s former friend Harry (Ralph Fiennes) arrives on the island along with his newly discovered daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson) and an uneasy ménage à quatre develops between them.
Fans of Fiennes will be pleased to find the movie features a lot more than most have seen of the talented actor, by which we mean a rather candid full-frontal shot. The Sicilian scenery isn’t half bad either.