Swimwear in Film Can Be Pretty Awkward

Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.

Last month, we teamed up with TIFF to put on an event in Toronto called 'Discovery Sessions: Behind The Lens', where we invited four highly talented, critically acclaimed filmmakers to share their unique filmmaking stories. J Blakeson (The Disappearance of Alice Creed), Larysa Kondracki (The Whistleblower), Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) and Rola Nashef (Detroit Unleaded) each spoke about their personal experiences of getting their debut films made – all of which premiered at TIFF.

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The flaunting of swimwear can be an awkward moment in film – at once stylish or sexy, it also reveals the inherent voyeurism of the cinematic gaze. Just think of Roger Vadim’s camera hovering over his wife on the beach in And God Created Woman (1956) or Harmony Korine’s slow motion, high-def shots of almost naked revellers – and another lead (and wife) Rachel Korine, in Spring Breakers. Often these scenes can descend into blatant camp: see Borat’s mankini or Pamela Anderson’s slo-mo red swimming costume in American TV series Baywatch (1989-2001).

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Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is back with his first English-language film since 1997's Alien: Resurrection. It's called, strangely, The Young And Prodigious Spivet and it stars Helena Bonham-Carter, Callum Keith Rennie, Kathy Bates, Judy Davis, newcomer Kyle Catlett and Dominique Pinon.

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To celebrate the re-releases of American indie director Hal Hartley's early films (Simple Men, Amateur, The Unbelievable Truth) we have some shiny, new DVDs to give away, courtesy of Artificial Eye. To be in with a chance of winning one of the aforementioned films, all you have to do is enter our competition.

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Keep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.