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Deep End (15)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant.

Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé. Mike becomes increasingly desperate to have Susan for himself, with tragic results. Read more …

More information on this production is available at www.bfi.org.uk.

The critical consensus

Everything about this singular film – the camerawork, the imagery, the soundtrack – feels vibrant and surprising in a way that makes most modern coming-of-age movies look formulaic and, well, shallow.

*****Steve Rose, The Guardian, 05/05/2011

Deep End is an essential, idiosyncratic addition to the congregation of coming-of-age classics. It exquisitely captures the fluctuating, pulsating madness of teenage hormones and emotions, and the routine calamity of young love.

Emma Simmonds, Little White Lies, 09/05/2011

The stilted acting supports the dream-like atmosphere, the supposedly sexual liberation of the 60s is treated as delusionary farce, and the extraordinary climax is acted out in the empty swimming pool.

Philip French, The Observer, 08/05/2011


Features about Deep End (15)

Deep End: pulled from the water

Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian, 01/05/2011

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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