Deep End

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski

1970 / 88min / DCP

Skolimowski’s first film in the United Kingdom finds him surveying the English scene with a jaundiced eye in the darkly comic tale of a high school drop-out (John Moulder Brown) who takes a job serving lusty middle-aged matrons at a crumbling London bathhouse, where he soon develops a consuming obsession with co-worker Jane Asher. An antidote to the advertiser’s myth of Swinging London which depicts a society seething with sexual repression, featuring the music of Cat Stevens and Krautrock giants Can (then billed as The Can), whose epic “Mother Sky” is put to phenomenal use in one of the film’s several standout set pieces.

Extended Introduction from Dominic Leppla, Polish film scholar, on Sunday May 14th