The colors in Brazil were incredibly intense; the oversaturated blues and greens are just inescapable. Even in winter, everything is lush. But here, at the elegant, 1960s pool bar, the season is more obvious. There’s no way a scene this gorgeous would be so eerily abandoned at the height of summer.
Decaseconds 
Its deserted because the bar is closed?
That might be part of it–but on a sunny afternoon, people will be at the pool even without the draw of alcohol.