Articles from A Bigger Splash Week

To celebrate the release of Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash, we're publishing a new feature on each of the four lead actors of the film every day from May 16–19, and we'll finish the week off with a review of the film.

May 16: Ralph Fiennes is cinema's ultimate tormented lover
May 17: Not a girl, not (yet) a woman: Dakota Johnson and Hollywood femininity
May 18: The queer cult stardom of Tilda Swinton
May 19: Matthias Schoenaerts and the art of not speaking
May 20: Review of A Bigger Splash
Bonus: Interview with director Luca Guadagnino

Alex Heeney / May 20, 2016

Desire is a dangerous dance in A Bigger Splash

Luca Guadagnino's erotic joyride is about the breaking point: what we think we want and what happens when we get it — or don’t. …

Alex Heeney / May 19, 2016

Matthias Schoenaerts and the art of not speaking

Though he’s made films in English, French, and Dutch, Matthias Schoenaerts tends to communicate his characters’ inner lives through physicality rather than …

Kyle Turner / May 18, 2016

The queer cult stardom of Tilda Swinton

Explicitly playing with gender and gender performance has been foundational to Swinton’s career and identity as a performer. Swinton’s queer identity emerges …

Dave Crewe / May 17, 2016

Not a girl, not (yet) a woman: Dakota Johnson and Hollywood femininity

At its best, Dakota Johnson’s acting reveals the restrictiveness of labels like “girlhood” and “womanhood”. Dave Crewe examines how she subverts conventional …

Joanna Di Mattia / May 16, 2016

Ralph Fiennes is cinema’s ultimate tormented lover

In The English Patient, Ralph Fiennes' eyes burn with desire, proving that the heart is an organ of fire. This is the first story in our A Bigger Splash special …

Ella Donald / March 17, 2016

Luca Guadagnino talks A Bigger Splash

Director Luca Guadagnino talks costumes, choreography, and generational conflict in A Bigger Splash. Like a good rock album, the film is sweaty, messy, …