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Erotically Charged Rotterdam Title ‘Swimming Home’ Grew From Freudian Analysis, Director Reveals, First Clip Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE)
Justin Anderson's Deborah Levy novel adaptation 'Swimming Home' has its world premiere in competition at Rotterdam.
Award-winning artist Justin Anderson’s debut feature “ Swimming Home ” has its world premiere in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, centers on poet Joe (Christopher Abbott) and war photographer Isabel ( Mackenzie Davis), whose marriage is dying when Kitti ( Ariane Labed), a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their sunny holiday villa in Greece, is invited to stay. They lunched and talked about surrealism, Freud and Cocteau, and to Anderson’s surprise, Levy offered him the book’s option, which was previously with Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films.
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