‘A Bigger Splash’
Feeling a bit of the old Seasonal Affective Disorder washing over you? Then open up your HBO Go/HBO Now app and fire up the 2016 film A Bigger Splash, wherein a cast of very attractive actors (Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Lily McMenamy) eat, drink, sunbathe, swim and dance their way through a long weekend on the arid Italian island of Pantelleria. Ralph Fiennes also stars —and do we ever mean STARS!— as Harry Hawkes, a music producer/former flame of Tilda Swinton’s rock star character Marianne Lane. Fiennes delivers the kind of electric, charismatic performance that should have been rewarded with an Oscar nomination; just watch his manic dance inspired by The Rolling Stones’ “Emotional Rescue”, the best scene of its kind committed to celluloid since Oscar Isaac’s disco breakdown in Ex Machina.