Deep End

Deep End

1971 · 92 min · EN · R · 7.0 (237 votes)
Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski · Starring Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors, Louise Martini · Music Cat Stevens

If you can't have the real thing— you do all kinds of unreal things.

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London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.

VIBE

A hazy, dreamlike immersion into adolescent confusion. It feels like a humid summer day, full of unspoken desires and the strange, unsettling intimacy of shared spaces. The film lingers, a peculiar and disquieting memory.

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