beverageday &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:beverageday @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:01:38 +0200 The Swimmer (Frank Perry + Sydney Pollack, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-swimmer-1968 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Swimmer (Frank Perry + Sydney Pollack, 1968)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" Beverage Day/div div class="img" The Swimmer (1968)/div div class="caption" Swimmer Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) reaching for a drink handed to him by someone offscreen. DP: David L. Quaid./div div class="txt" ##### At a poolside #CocktailParty, the swimmer appears. He notes that the houses in between his hosts' and his are connected by a “river” of #pools and decides to swim home, from one pool to the other, superficially meeting people, crashing suburban pool parties, in an increasingly irrational state.\ "And the water up there. Remember? That transparent, light green water. It felt different. God, what a beautiful feeling. We could've swum around the world in those days." ### – Ned Merrill\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #BeverageDay #FrankPerry #SydneyPollack #EleanorPerry #BurtLancaster #MarvinHamlisch #DavidLQuaid #BookAdaptation #drama #USA #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Swimmer (Frank Perry + Sydney Pollack, 1968)

May

6

Beverage Day

The Swimmer (1968)

Swimmer Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) reaching for a drink handed to him by someone offscreen. DP: David L. Quaid.

At a poolside #CocktailParty, the swimmer appears. He notes that the houses in between his hosts' and his are connected by a “river” of #pools and decides to swim home, from one pool to the other, superficially meeting people, crashing suburban pool parties, in an increasingly irrational state.

“And the water up there. Remember? That transparent, light green water. It felt different. God, what a beautiful feeling. We could've swum around the world in those days.”

– Ned Merrill

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #BeverageDay #FrankPerry #SydneyPollack #EleanorPerry #BurtLancaster #MarvinHamlisch #DavidLQuaid #BookAdaptation #drama #USA #1960s ★★★★½

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