A Bigger Splash (2015)

A BIGGER SPLASH  (2015)  ¢ ¢
    D: Luca Guadagnino
    Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes,
    Dakota Johnson, Aurore Clément, Lily McMenamy
This is about some beautiful, boring, rich people hanging out on the Mediterranean together. Sicily, I think. Tilda Swinton plays a pop star left voiceless by recent throat surgery. Matthias Schoenaerts plays her current partner, a filmmaker trying to stay sober in the wake of a suicide attempt. Ralph Fiennes plays Swinton's ex, an obnoxious record producer who has worked with the Rolling Stones and never wastes a chance to let everybody know about that. Dakota Johnson plays Fiennes' petulant daughter, whose mission in life seems to be to make everybody around her as miserable as possible. Something happens to one of them eventually, and it's enough to throw a monkey wrench into their bickering time in paradise, but not enough to make any of them less boring. They sure are beautiful people, though, and the approach to nudity is distinctly European. From a purely visual standpoint, watching this movie is no hardship at all.