Swimming Home

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Swimming Home

2024

1h 39m

Comedy

Drama

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Joe and Isabel’s marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their holiday villa, is invited to stay. Kitti collects and eats poisonous plants, and Nina their teenage daughter is enthralled by her. What kind of relief can Kitti provide for this family in crisis? Swimming Home is a surreal and darkly comic journey into the unresolved traumas that lurk in the shadows of all our lives.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Apr 28, 2025

1/5

Every tedious arthouse cliché is lovingly embraced in a film that begins in unintentional parody mode, with symbolic shots of slow-mo waves, body parts... and discordant music plink-plonking across the soundtrack.

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

Feb 1, 2024

May be better suited to its original form as a novel than to the slightly scattershot approach of this film. Still, there’s a disconcerting, jarring quality to the story that is hard to shake...

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Feb 1, 2024

2/5

Lugubrious, laborious and ridiculous – this movie version of Deborah Levy’s celebrated novel Swimming Home is frankly uncomfortable in the most wrong way possible.

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David Parkinson

Radio Times

Jul 11, 2025

3/5

Similarly, stylistic borrowings from the likes of Theorem (1968), La Piscine (1969) and Swimming Pool (2003) ensure this slow-burning saga exerts a disconcerting fascination.

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Joe Muldoon

Battle Royale With Cheese

Jun 7, 2025

By the time the credits roll, you’ll probably be wondering what Swimming Home is really about. And I’m not particularly left caring enough to find out.

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Apr 29, 2025

2.5/5

A highly mannered approach, a staccato script and deliberate emotional distance mean that the drama never really comes alive, but the whole thing looks and sounds divine.

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MB C

@MB.Cinema Feb 13, 2026

When a family arrives at their Greek summer home to find a mysterious woman living in their pool, a quiet vacation turns into a slow unraveling of buried secrets and repressed desires.....Rather than relying on plot twists, the film builds tension through silence, glances, and emotional undercurrents, embracing a slow-burn structure that favors symbolism over conventional storytelling.....Themes of generational trauma, guilt, and fractured identity surface gradually, with water serving as a powerful metaphor for the unconscious.....The performances add emotional weight, though the heavy symbolism and deliberate pacing may distance viewers seeking clarity.....Unsettling and introspective, it’s less about shocking events and more about psychological exposure......

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Joe

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Synopsis

Joe and Isabel’s marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their holiday villa, is invited to stay. Kitti collects and eats poisonous plants, and Nina their teenage daughter is enthralled by her. What kind of relief can Kitti provide for this family in crisis? Swimming Home is a surreal and darkly comic journey into the unresolved traumas that lurk in the shadows of all our lives.

Director: Justin Anderson
Producer: Giorgos Karnavas, Paula Linhares, Emily Morgan
Screenwriter: Justin Anderson, Deborah Levy
Production Co: Heretic, Quiddity Films, Head Gear Films, Reagent Media, Lemming Film, Anti-Worlds
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 39m

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