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At a resort in the seaside country of Li Tolqa, the novelist James Foster and his wife Em are on vacation while a local festival takes place, and their marriage is strained. Gabi, a fan of the one novel James has published, invites them to dinner with her husband Alban, and the next day the four drive into the countryside, though visitors are warned to stay on the resort grounds. At a beach Gabi approaches James when he steps away. After a day of sunbathing and cooking, they drive back drunk; the car's lights flicker, and James hits a local man, who dies. Gabi says they cannot call the police. James is arrested the next day. For foreign nationals the law allows a copy of the guilty to be made and killed in his place.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Infinity Pool (2023)
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- For its United States release, an initial cut of Infinity Pool was rated NC-17 by the Motion Picture Association for graphic violence and sexual content; Neon appealed to the ratings board for an R but the NC-17 was upheld, and only after re-edits did the film land an R.
- In June 2023, Infinity Pool and Brandon Cronenberg's earlier film Possessor got a double feature in three North American theaters, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, with Cronenberg attending; it was the first time either film screened theatrically in its uncut form.
- Brandon Cronenberg wrote the original screenplay for Infinity Pool intending to direct it himself, building the story from his own unsatisfying vacations and from a science fiction story about killing clones that he had been writing.
