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THE SWIMMER
Friday, February 21
3:50
Saturday, February 22
2:40
Wednesday, February 26
6:20
Thursday, March 6
3:30
Based on the 1964 New Yorker story by John Cheever.
U.S., 1968
Directed by Frank Perry
With Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Janet Landgard, Joan Rivers
Approx. 95 min. DCP.
Aging hunk Burt’s Sunday odyssey through the pools of tony suburban Connecticut, with confrontations with an old lover, estranged friends, and his own mortality along the way.
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Has the shape of an open-ended hallucination.”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times
“A largely loony but oddly compulsive allegory… Totally engrossing, thanks to its very strangeness, and to the superb performances and the vivid location photography.”
– Geoff Andrew, Time Out
