Deep End (1970)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: Eastmancolor 90m
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors
Synopsis:
A fifteen year-old lad gets his first job at a swimming baths and falls for his co-worker, a feisty redhead with more than one iron in the fire.
Review:
Dripping with foreboding from its first smear of blood across the chrome of a bicycle bell, Skolimowski's comment on the permissive society is full of his quasi-surreal touches (a standee morphing into a naked Asher under water, a prostitute with her leg in plaster controlling her room through a system of pulleys) and skewers the essential confusion of a youth who is on the one hand surrounded by commodified sexuality and yet is programmed and yearns for a considered, tender attachment. The colour design and cinematography are first-rate, but the soundtrack suffers from some of that seventies creakiness made worse by the fact that much of it was shot in Munich with lip-synched German actors.
Country: GER/GB
Technical: Eastmancolor 90m
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors
Synopsis:
A fifteen year-old lad gets his first job at a swimming baths and falls for his co-worker, a feisty redhead with more than one iron in the fire.
Review:
Dripping with foreboding from its first smear of blood across the chrome of a bicycle bell, Skolimowski's comment on the permissive society is full of his quasi-surreal touches (a standee morphing into a naked Asher under water, a prostitute with her leg in plaster controlling her room through a system of pulleys) and skewers the essential confusion of a youth who is on the one hand surrounded by commodified sexuality and yet is programmed and yearns for a considered, tender attachment. The colour design and cinematography are first-rate, but the soundtrack suffers from some of that seventies creakiness made worse by the fact that much of it was shot in Munich with lip-synched German actors.
Country: GER/GB
Technical: Eastmancolor 90m
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors
Synopsis:
A fifteen year-old lad gets his first job at a swimming baths and falls for his co-worker, a feisty redhead with more than one iron in the fire.
Review:
Dripping with foreboding from its first smear of blood across the chrome of a bicycle bell, Skolimowski's comment on the permissive society is full of his quasi-surreal touches (a standee morphing into a naked Asher under water, a prostitute with her leg in plaster controlling her room through a system of pulleys) and skewers the essential confusion of a youth who is on the one hand surrounded by commodified sexuality and yet is programmed and yearns for a considered, tender attachment. The colour design and cinematography are first-rate, but the soundtrack suffers from some of that seventies creakiness made worse by the fact that much of it was shot in Munich with lip-synched German actors.