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And one more for Friday: ‘A Bigger Splash’

Dan Webster

And now comes late word that the film "A Bigger Splash" will also open on Friday. The film, which was directed by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, is based on the 1969 French film "La Piscine." The story revolves around a rock star (Tilda Swinton) and her younger lover (Matthias Schoenaerts), whose life gets complicated when one of the rocker's former lovers (Ralph Fiennes) comes to visit with his Lolita-like daughter (Dakota Johnson) in tow.

As an aside: The film was shot in the Italian island of Pantelleria, a place where my wife and a spent a week recently. We spotted most of the shooting sites, which were fairly easy to find since you can drive the entire circumference in around two hours. But the stars and crew were long gone. As were the tourists. Maybe I'll write more about all that Pantelleria has to offer at a later time.