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Rialto Pictures’ release of Jacques Deray’s erotic thriller LA PISCINE (1969), starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider, will run in a new 4K restoration at Landmark’s Embarcadero and Shattuck Cinemas starting June 18. La Piscine will play exclusively in theaters only (not available in Virtual Cinema).

An idyllic Côte d’Azur holiday for lovers Delon and Schneider gets complicated when her ex-lover Maurice Ronet (Elevator to the Gallows, Purple Noon) suddenly shows up on their doorstep, with 18-year-old daughter Jane Birkin in tow… leading to bouts of jealousy, musical beds, drunkenness, and an accidental drowning. Or was it murder? Long a cult film in France, where it’s celebrated as a masterpiece of Gallic Noir — but with much of the action taking place around the colorful, sun-splashed swimming pool of the title.