In the poster for "The Swimming Pool," a new film by the French director François Ozon, Ludivine Sagnier lies soporifically on a granite patio in a chevron-patterned bikini whose construction clearly did not tax the world's fabric supply. To an American eye, the image seems almost anachronistic for the very reason that Ms. Sagnier isn't spear-fishing in her bare bikini, wrestling felons or competing in an Australian surfing competition.
Elsewhere in popular culture — or the American sector of it at least — the bikini has undergone a transition from a symbol of languorous sexuality, as embodied by Ms. Sagnier, to a symbol of tough, bloodletting, physical showmanship.
In movies like "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," and television series like "Boarding House: North Shore" on WB and "Surf Girls" on MTV, the tiny, triangle-topped bikini is the millennial equivalent of the power suit — the costume for women who ride 20-foot waves or smash the foreheads of evildoers, thus proving they are just as combative as men.
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Tank girls wear Bikini
Bigotte Amis brauchen das.
ist in europa genauso. es haben sich ja auch die körper, die die bikinis dann tragen, verändert. die haut als panzer. das athletische ideal. die muskelbildung. die tendenzielle abschaffung des weichen, durchlässigen, faulen, nicht energiegeladenen. die gymnastin.
Gut dann, dass der Film kommt:
das Foto der Dame am Poolrand verheißt uns ein angenehm sinnliches - das in NY zwar einschläfernd (soporifically) verstanden wird- Gegenteil: den afternoon delight am Pool im Bikini.