Guadagnino's mastery of portraying the sensuality, this movie vibrates with the sun heat and desire, bowing to the complexity of human emotions.

Another delightful yet suspenseful drama thriller. Absolutely loved this movie. Tim Treakle

This was fun. Ralph is fantastic, and the karaoke / pool fight scenes are everything.

I thought it had to be a comedy. I couldn't stop laughing. I kept waiting for the old geezer aging rock music producer to drop over dead but sadly it did not happen. Wait until you see the scene of him dancing to the Rolling Stones. OMG. The whole movie is just a bunch of nonsense. Some of the worst writing and acting imaginable. Dakota looks nice is the only good thing i can say about it. Very silly and just gets worse as it goes along. I bailed out

A bigger bore is more like it. Ralph Fiennes is relentlessly obnoxious as a manic, self-absorbed record producer. Tilda Swinton, androgynous and affectless, is as implausible a rock star as she is the object of Fiennes's and macho-man Matthias Schoenaerts's desire. That Dakota Johnson has famous parents must account for her presence on the big screen. The most sympathetic character is the dead fish graphically gutted by Fiennes when he takes to the kitchen. A waste of time and pretty scenery.

SPOILER ALERT! The only thing worse than self-obsessed actors, is self-obsessed actors and musos. Combine the two and you get - - - this. The only real mystery is why it took so long for someone to kill Ralph Fiennes

The film equivalent of that modern art piece you see and don't get. But some pretentious art critic, whose full of himself tells you it has a deeper meaning. You know a blue triangle in a red square type vibe. Only decent thing about this movie was the cinema photography. Everything else including Tilda trying to look like a rock star was all rather pretentious. A wandering script that ended up going down a rather bland and grey, dead end.

Fantastic. Subversive, sexy, intelligent, violent, Fiennes being brilliant, unless you're a lover of mainstream blockbusting shite you will love it.

Set in the Italian countryside, this film was about three extremely unlikeable people and one barely likeable. It was punctuated by incessant meaningful looks that appeared perfectly meaningless. Ralph Fiennes' nervously exuberant character only attained temporary relief via a couple of indulgent and unnerving dance routines. One included a "tasteful" incestual dance and song routine with his 17 year old daughter that inexplicably drew a large Italian audience to a local bar. I hoped that at least one observer worked in child protection. This was billed as a two hour thriller and we were at least one hour fifteen minutes in before the heart rate of severe myocarditis patient might have been mildly perturbed. Tilda Swinton as a male object of desire is a challenge for the skills of any writer/director but setting two blokes after her should have shifted the film from thriller to fantasy. In keeping with her self-definition, Tilda's character screamed Queer and as their desire is the obliteration of categories, identifying sympathetically with her sets the audience a difficult task. Fiennes' daughter was the third in this unpleasant foursome. She is supposed to be a young actress of some accomplishment but the sexual diffidence Swindon inspires seems to have rubbed off on her. How the brooding Matthias Schoenaerts brought himself to perform the act is hard to imagine and I will be forever thankful that we were saved from seeing it Two women, an elderly grandmother with a leg casing, and her young companion turned up mid-film then disappeared. There must have been spare money in the budget for experimental choreography because grandma felt the need to jig around impulsively too. I assume she was related to Ralph. Sadly, it must be presumed that their role was to keep us awake for their involvement was too brief and inexplicable to justify the time and cost. Things brightened up a little with Ralph's death but even then his daughter required a face slap from Tilda Swindon, as she left the set for the last time, to draw her out of a nasty introversion. This film was not made for me. A Bigger Splash is a great substitute for chamomile tea.

Brooding melodrama with excellent cast. Some great scenery but ultimately ponderous and pointless despite the Stones tracks and references. A very long two hours….

i remember watching this years ago its well acted and well shot just not my type of film. worth watching if your into very artsy films.

Boring group-dynamics love-triangle movie.

Together with her younger boyfriend (Matthias Schoenaerts), a rock star (Tilda Swinton) recovers from vocal cord surgery on a quiet Italian island. However, when her former lover and manager (Ralph Fiennes) and his sexually charged daughter (Dakota Johnson) arrive on the scene, matters become somewhat complicated. Director Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash is an interesting look at characters coming to terms with past relationships and the dangers of succumbing to temptations that may be too tantalizing to resist. Often beautiful to look and filled with interesting characters and moral dilemmas, A Bigger Splash is also filled with needlessly erratic editing and some truly odd shot selections, often bordering on pretentious. Despite its flaws, A Bigger Splash is worth watching for the periodically dazzling visuals and the charismatic performances of Fiennes and Johnson.

Luca Guadagnin's captivating take on Jacques Deray's 1969 film La Piscine, A Bigger Splash focuses on Tilda Swinton's world famous rock singer, who is on holiday with lover Paul, and recovering from recent surgery. Certainly not for everyone, this split opinion on release, but the performances across the board, especially an insanely brilliant Ralph Fiennes make this a hugely enjoyable watch.

magnificently executed, poetic film for anyone who appreciates an aesthetic film where the plot of the film does not necessarily bring an action-filled highlight, but rather an experience where one is left with a deeper mindset and an aesthetic experience based on the underlying message of the film.

A bit obvious and not psychologically complex as some have suggested. Four people come together in a luxury Mediterranean villa, a man and a woman who are partners and a man (ex-lover) and his pretty daughter. Guess what happens? Slow-paced but not in a good way, some have praised Ralph Fiennes extrovert performance. Agreed but if the plot is superficial the acting is irrelevant.

Way funnier than I heard going in, so right off the bat the movie showed it's subversive side. Ralph Fiennes is utterly delightfully and I got swept up in the first half with a constant smile on my face, it was so feel-good, that I KNEW something was wrong but couldn't quite put my finger on it. The psychosexual crime thriller elements, however, are sure to kick into gear and suddenly everything gets WAY more shocking. I'm really bummed about where the plot went in terms of "Oh, but I wanted to see more of that character!" But the subversive jarring shift in tone makes the disappointment more than forgivable as the film becomes unbearably tense for it's last third as you feel like each character's subtle realization of each other's sins is gonna come bite each other in the ass as one (or all, at this point) of them tries to kill someone else. I would put my incorrect predictions here, but they're laced with spoilers, so go watch the movie and find out!

Pretty dark drama that was well played by Swinton and Fiennes...she's a mute rock star and he's mostly skinny dipping in the pool....

Wonderful dialogs: "- Paul De Smedt: You're obscene. - Harry Hawkes: We're all obscene. Everyone's obscene. That's the whole fucking point." "- Paul De Smedt: Harry, come on, that's a grave. - Harry Hawkes: Yeah, well, Europe is a grave."

Decadent and debauched. Oh, and one more thing: boring, boring, boring!!