Le Grand Bain

Original title: Le grand bain

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

13K

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A depressed man joins a synchronized swimming team made up of middle aged men.A depressed man joins a synchronized swimming team made up of middle aged men.A depressed man joins a synchronized swimming team made up of middle aged men.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

13K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 wins & 16 nominations total

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Trailer 0:43

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8jlmalingrey

Great story about male friendships and life

A great cast with many of France's beloved actors. I would call this film is a low-key comedy (as in not the dumb-dumb stuff we sometimes see) tangled with real life drama. It's a pleasure to watch as we delve into each character's life, where is more than meets the eye. It's well acted, well directed, and overall makes for good viewing. Rather on the feel-good side of things - it's mostly believable, and when not, remember it's a comedy ;)

8willeasyer

Emotional trip!

I was skeptic about this film, but it proved me totally wrong. It's really powerful and emotive, a beautiful story about a group of man each failing his life in his own way and trying to reclaim their manhood through Synchronized swimming. it might sound absurd said like this but it's really good a perfect reflexion of the crisis of masculinity of our time, add to it it's a perfectly funny and comical film.

8dakjets

Great about friendships among grown up men

Friendship among men is an unusual theme in film. There are dozens of movies about women, and especially comedies. Therefore, this French film becomes a wonderful insight into men of adulthood and how a companionship develops. The film is fun, charming and engaging, but never nostalgic. Although the film is primarily a feel-good movie, it is also a serious undertone of where men's challenges in adulthood. As well as how it is for men when the role expectations they have not followed up, whether by unemployment, family problems or poorly paid jobs. But here it is primarily about how to do something about the situation and the cohesion between them. A great story and movie, this one.

9cesspit-53505

swim

This i am rating as my film of the year, it has got to be the most wonderful and well paced story i have seen this year, good pace, good acting and none of the usual plots. I recommend it to anyone wanting that little lift out of mediocrity, that something to pull them from the mundane day to day viewing. Watch it and you will come away refreshed and ready for another day on earth, i did not even know i was also watching the subtitles from halfway, and at the end the story told itself without words. Be you any nationality, you will connect with each character, wonderful and uplifting experience, oh, it's good to be alive

7DogePelis2015

Swimmers' friendship

It is an enjoyable French film; the plot is funny and at the same time dramatic, the performances are good and the swimming scenes are well directed; it is a good option to spend a pleasant time.

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Trivia
Before the shooting, the actors trained for seven months, especially with Julie Fabre, former coach of the French Olympic synchronized swimming team. If the latter was initially skeptical, she told Gilles Lellouche that things would finally be able to be done after three weeks.

Goofs
Right after the counting sequence ("1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8"), Amanda's lips in the long shot do not match her yelling.

Quotes
Claire: Your team is lucky. You put a lot of heart into people you don't even know.
Bertrand: It's precisely because I don't know them that I put so much.
Claire: Are you that disappointed?
Bertrand: But we're all disappointed. We're all disappointed. Everything's disappointing. Even when we're happy, we're disappointed. We spend our lives being disappointed. And that's probably what makes the idea of death a little more bearable. I guess.
Claire: Did you take your medicine?
Bertrand: No, I've run out.
Claire: Ah well, that's it! My love, I'm going to have dinner with our children. I'll leave you with your best friend, Monsieur l'Escalier. And if you ever decide to slit your wrists because of that pool thing, I beg you, go do it in the garden of the fascists across the street. Might as well traumatize their kids as ours. Do you agree?