While some other countries are getting it first, we won’t have to wait too much longer for Luca Guadagnino‘s highly anticipated follow-up to I Am Love, A Bigger Splash. Although it’s arriving in the U.K. this week, Fox Searchlight will put it out in the U.S. in early May, and today brings their trailer for the film starring Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, and Matthias Schoenaerts. An update on Jacques Deray‘s La Piscine, the story follows a pair of couples on the island of Pantelleria.
It was one of our favorite films of Venice, and we said in our review, “Despite a loose script that justifies little, Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s follow-up feature to his glorious melodrama I Am Love is a sweaty, kinetic, dangerously unpredictable ride of a film. One is frustrated by the final stroke of genius that never came, but boy was it fun to spend two hours inside such a whirlwind of desires, mind games, delirious sights and sounds. Based on the 1969 French drama La piscine (The Swimming Pool), the story essentially begins as Marianne (Tilda Swinton) and Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) – a couple vacationing on an Italian island – get an unexpected visit from her former lover and record producer Harry (Ralph Fiennes), along with his daughter Penny (Dakota Johnson). Harry, a raging bohemian who still harbors affections for Marianne, and Penny, a confident Lolita-type who has her sights set on the hunky Paul, will make sure feelings old and new get kindled, leading to frictions that may end up being more than harmless.”
Check out the new trailer below, along with new images.
In A BIGGER SPLASH, rock legend Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry (Ralph Fiennes) unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson) and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue. A BIGGER SPLASH is a sensuous portrait of desire, jealousy and rock and roll, under the Mediterranean sun.
A Bigger Splash arrives in limited release on May 4th and expands on May 13th.