Watch Deep End For Free

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Wow! Such a good movie.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Teenager John Moulder Brown (Mike) gets an attendant's job at a swimming pool and public baths. His co-worker is Jane Asher (Susan) who shows him the ropes which includes performing extra duties as sexual favours for customers. Brown isn't interested in this side of the job but has no choice when pornographic actress Diana Dors shows up! They have a memorable and funny scene together at the baths. Dors also pops up in a porno film at the cinema when Brown sneaks in after following Asher and her fiancé Christopher Sandford (Chris) who go to watch it. What Brown does next is pretty daring! Anyway, this teenager becomes obsessed with his co-worker and we all know that obsession never ends well… It's a film set in a peculiar world – that of the sleazy public bathrooms – that portrays a proportion of the sleaziness that must have actually taken place there. So, it's good for that and we do get some peculiar characters. Karl Michael Vogler's swimming teacher will creep you out as he takes his swimming class of young girls. Whilst I could relate to a teenage boy lusting after a woman older than himself, I couldn't relate to Brown's actions. The cinema scene – no way, buddie – he wouldn't have the confidence. It's completely unrealistic and seems more like the director's fantasy. However, it is at this point that you realize Jane Asher is a complete bitch. So, we have two flawed main characters which is OK but also annoying at times. And the ending – well, it's a downbeat film.

I assumed this was a foreign film I found listed in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, it was directed by Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, but it had elements of West German production, but it is a certainly a British set story, and one that sounded interesting. Basically fifteen year old Michael 'Mike' (John Moulder-Brown) has just left school, and finds himself a job at the local swimming pool and public baths, being trained by Susan (BAFTA nominated Jane Asher) who is ten years older than him but he cannot help but find her attractive. He finds that working at the bathhouse has more than just cleaning going on, he is being tipped to provide more services to clients of a more sexual nature, this includes his first lady client (Diana Dors) who is stimulated pushing his face into her bosom and talking about football suggestively, Susan explains that this tipping is normal practice, and that many of the clients ask for the opposite sex for their tips. Mike falls for Susan, despite the fact that she has a fiancé (Christopher Sandford), there is a night when he follows them into the cinema and an adult movie, sitting behind them and him touching her breasts, the fiancé goes to tell the manager and the police are maybe going to question him, but Susan kisses him and is amused, she and the fiancé do not press charges, the police instead allege a minor being allowed into an X rated movie, and the fiancé tries to get revenge before the police intrude. Mike later finds out that Susan is cheating on her fiancé with a swimming instructor (Karl Michael Vogler), who was also Mike's former physical eduction teacher, in jealous anger Mike breaks a fire alarm and cuts his hand, and he is curious to see what is going on between her and the fiancé. So one night he goes to the club he heard she would be, he avoids being spotted and hangs around the erotic area, buying many hot dogs from the salesman (Burt Kwouk), but also he finds a cardboard cutout of a girl, and it looms just like Susan, so he steals it, and hides with leg cast wearing prostitute Beata (Louise Martini) until the coast is clear, and eventually after ages of waiting he confronts Susan on the underground, she neither confirms or denies the image is of her exposing herself. Following a night where Mike swims naked in the swimming pool, with the cardboard cutout, he is angry again and blows the P.E. teacher's car tyres with broken glass, Susan confronts him and they talk in the park, but when she slaps him her diamond from her engagement rings falls into the snow, so he helps her by scooping the area of snow it would have dropped into plastic bags. They take the snow to the public baths, and with the swimming pool drained he lowers the ceiling lamp to use for electricity to connect a kettle and melt the snow, while he continues the melting in the empty pool, she makes the P.E. teacher walk away upset, not just because of the punctured car tyres, but she says that she borrowed the car keys and lost them as well. Mike finds the diamond, and lies naked in the empty swimming pool holding the stone on his tongue, she is given back the diamond and is about to leave, but she undresses as well and lies with him, they talk and make amends, she tries to leave but Mike wants her to stay, unaware they are there the attendant starts filling the swimming pool, and in anger at her trying to leave Mike hits Susan with the lamp in the back of the head, she falls unconscious into the water, he embraces her while they are still naked. I agree with critics, this is one of the strangest films that was made during the Swinging Sixties, it incorporates many of the aspects of the period, especially with the sexuality of the characters, the setting of the dank and grotty bath house is interesting, the acting is as good as you can get, there are some good funny moments, especially during the constant hot dog buying scene, but also the dark and surreal stuff to, but it is all of it's time and a watchable drama. Very good!

Jerzy Skolimowski's cult classic now restored to its former beauty is certainly one to treasure. Most of the film was shot in Munich, though this is very much about Britain in the 70s. Actors like Diana Dors playing a character who fantasises about football while having sex, Jane Asher as a flirty young madam in a mini skirt and good old Burt Kwouk selling hot dogs. Along the way it confirms that many of the best films about Britain (Blow Up, Cul De Sac, The Ruling Class) are made by Johnny Foreigner. With its primary colours, careful compositions and sharply angled photography it doesn't look British. Even the soundtrack is from the Teutonic legend known as Can. It all melds wonderfully to produce a telling snapshot of the period, and a lot more besides

Cute working class fifteen-year-old John Moulder-Brown (as Mike) gets a job an attendant in a London bathhouse and falls "head-over-heels" in love with his co-worker, sexy red-haired Jane Asher (as Sue). He meets "ladies of a certain age," like overweight Diana Dors, "who favours young boys" - but, Mr. Moulder-Brown can't stop fantasizing about the delectable Ms. Asher; she was the inspiration for many of The Beatles' love songs, "And I Love Her"..."Deep End" is an imaginatively shot, by Jerzy Skolimowski with Charly Steinberger, story involving obsessive teenage love, with Moulder-Brown very effectively essaying the "mature for his age" protagonist. You also get a good look at Ms. Asher as an actress, which she was before achieving world-wide fame as a Paul McCartney's first significant relationship. The film's ending is somewhat disappointing; it certainly could have been more... electric.****** Deep End (3/18/71) Jerzy Skolimowski ~ John Moulder-Brown, Jane Asher, Diana Dors, Karl Michael Vogler