Mike, an introverted 15-year-old from a working-class background, works as an attendant at a public bath in a London suburb. The impressionable teen develops a crush on his attractive, 22-year-old colleague Susan, a streetsmart girl who knows what makes guys tick. His feelings for her soon mutate into an adolescent amour fou. Frustrated and lacking the emotional maturity to cope with his feelings, Mike begins to stalk the object of his desire.

“Deep End,” Jerzy Skolimowski’s second English-language film, is a hauntingly disturbing love story that starts on a light note but gradually builds to a tragic climax. Like Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” or Polanski’s “Repulsion”, “Deep End” captures the sense of impending dread and spiritual breakdown in Swinging London at the end of the 1960s. The film has a terrific soundtrack provided by singer-songwriter Cat Stevens and seminal German band Can.

An article about the director HERE.