Deep End (1970)

When I saw this movie for the first time, I was just a little older than Mike... By now, I'm already a bit older than Susan.

If there is one theme that always yields good scores for me, it is obsessions.

This concerns an obsession that 15-year-old Mike has for his older colleague Susan.

And that is the wild teenager versus the men whose love she does reciprocate, and the director's obsession with the color red.

Yep "Quadrophenia" meets "Marnie".

Little masterpiece.

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A film from the miniskirt-and-tights era, also the time when filmmakers (certainly from Great Britain) produced "real-life" films and dealt more daringly with subjects such as sexuality ( here, the tipping in the bathhouse, provided there was some special goodwill towards the customer, the open/intimate conversations, the revue scenes, the finale in the swimming pool...).
However, the film failed to captivate much in the first part—somewhat superficial and meaningless lightheartedness—but when Mike's obsession with Shannon truly plays out, there is much beauty and expressiveness to be experienced. The cinematography and characterization are sublime in the subway scene with the beautiful, detached expressions of the bystanders, the vain Shannon who lovelessly places her ring above everything else, and also when Shannon curses the "Don Juan for young girls," as well as the dramatic final scene; we truly experience impressive cinema.

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Fine film. Nice seventies atmosphere, beautiful use of color, and a gorgeous Jane Asher playing an attractive character. I can understand Mike's interest in her, who is convincingly played by John Moulder-Brown. A compelling story with delightful craziness, and not too raunchy, as far as I'm concerned. 4*

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