Set in London of the swinging 1960s,
Deep End should be up there with Michelangelo Antonioni’s
Blow-Up or Roman Polanski’s
Repulsion as another sharp outsiders’ view of 60s Britain. The setting is a public swimming pool, where teenage innocent Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is shown the ropes, floats, and a whole lot more by his worldlier colleague Susie (Jane Asher). Susie becomes an object of his desire and his behaviour becomes increasingly delirious.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
UK1970. 90 minutes