Deep End

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Deep End

R,

1971,

1h 30m,

Drama

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90%

20 Reviews

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74%

500+ Ratings

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20 Reviews

74%

Popcornmeter

500+ Ratings

Mike (John Moulder-Brown), a 15-year-old bathhouse worker, develops a crush on his older, attractive co-worker, Susan (Jane Asher). At first, they help each other secure bigger tips by swapping their respective male and female clients. But their tidy business arrangement is severed when Mike discovers that Susan has not only shunned him, but is cheating on her fiancé with an older swim coach. As Mike begins stalking Susan in an effort to break them up, his innocent crush spirals into obsession.

Michael Atkinson

Village Voice

Dec 13, 2011

Skolimowski's Eastern Bloc-existentialist chops finally emerge in the last act, as the futility of looking for a diamond in the snow evolves into a sex-death underwater ballet.

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Jaime N. Christley

Slant Magazine

Dec 12, 2011

4/4

Deep End is as soaked in pheromones and nervous electricity as its main character.

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Philip French

Guardian

May 8, 2011

Made in Munich but set entirely in London, it's a bizarre tail end to the swinging London cycle of the 1960s, centring on a rundown suburban public swimming pool and its adjoining private bathrooms and showers.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

Aug 6, 2022

7/10

Its proposal, elaborated with color and a certain eroticism, captures with a poetic gaze observations about desire, rebellion and the sexual awakening of London's youth. [Full review in Spanish]

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Nigel Andrews

Monthly Film Bulletin

Jan 31, 2018

Skolimowski allows his characters' dreams total freedom, and within that subjective arena anything can happen.

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Ben Nicholson

CineVue

Apr 12, 2016

4/5

Ostensibly a saucy, knockabout swimming pool romp, it develops into a surreal dive into the waters of destructive sexuality.

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Poe M

Jul 4, 2017

Jerzy Skolimowski's social satire is an offbeat delight.

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Jerzy Skolimowski

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Jane Asher

Susan

John Moulder-Brown

Michael "Mike"

Diana Dors

Mike's 1. lady client

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Chris

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Synopsis

Mike (John Moulder-Brown), a 15-year-old bathhouse worker, develops a crush on his older, attractive co-worker, Susan (Jane Asher). At first, they help each other secure bigger tips by swapping their respective male and female clients. But their tidy business arrangement is severed when Mike discovers that Susan has not only shunned him, but is cheating on her fiancé with an older swim coach. As Mike begins stalking Susan in an effort to break them up, his innocent crush spirals into obsession.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Producer: Helmut Jedele
Screenwriter: Jerzy Skolimowski, J. Gruza, B. Sulik
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Maran Film
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 10, 1971, Limited
Runtime: 1h 30m

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