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Sink or Swim

2018 · 122 min

A gentle, funny-sad crowd-pleaser about broken men finding purpose together; it warms you slowly and leaves you buoyant.

Directed by
Gilles Lellouche
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde
Overview
40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.

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Directed by
Gilles Lellouche
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde
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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • found family
  • healing
  • friendship
  • identity
  • grief
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

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drama, comedy
Directed by
Gilles Lellouche
Written by
Ahmed Hamidi, Gilles Lellouche, Julien Lambroschini
Starring
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Cinematography
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French

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