The Swimmers

Name: The Swimmers
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-05-26

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82%

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Storyline

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about them. Inspired by Ed Ruscha's swimming pool photographs.

Trailers

Official Trailer

DirectorCharlie López

ReleasedMay 26, 2022

StatusReleased

Original languageSpanish

Budget

$1K

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

7 fresh · 0 rotten

Critics consensus

“The Swimmers can be heavy-handed and it's arguably too long, but it handles a worthy topic with generally uplifting results.”

82% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Claudia Puig

RTFilmWeek (LAist)Nov 30, 2022

Inspiring, somewhat episodic, and definitely a crowd-pleaser.

David Jenkins

RTLittle White LiesNov 25, 2022

Yusra Mardini’s story is one worth telling through film – and this does a solid job of that.

Kimber Myers

RTCrooked MarqueeNov 24, 2022

Directed by Sally El Hosaini (My Brother the Devil), The Swimmers combines two of cinema’s most inspirational genres — the sports movie and the survival drama — into a single moving film.

Yasmine El Rashidi

RTThe New York Review of BooksMay 12, 2023

The effect is emotionally gripping (the film does provoke tears), but the inner lives and anguish, the ongoing sorrow at losing a homeland, are somehow overlooked.