The Swimmer
On a scorching summer day in an affluent Connecticut suburb, Ned Merrill, a fit and confident middle-aged man, embarks on an unusual journey. Looking at the chain of swimming pools across the neighborhood, he decides to swim his way home through the backyards of his friends and neighbors. What begins as a sun-drenched, carefree adventure gradually shifts into an unsettling odyssey, as each pool encounter unearths fragmented memories and buried truths. This 1968 classic delivers a surreal and poignant character study of a man slowly drifting into his own past.
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