Deep End

Currently, the Anthology Film Archives here in NYC are running (or should I say, finishing up) a Skolimowski retro. They are giving special attention to a film I have been dying to see for a long long time, Deep End (they have a brand new 35mm print). I'm going tonight, so I figured I'd ask what the opinions on the film and Skolimowski in general are. I am a big fan, based on what I have seen. I think his films would make a very nice eclipse set at the least.

From the Anthology Website:

[quote]DEEP END
by Jerzy Skolimowski
SPECIAL REVIVAL PREMIERE – BRAND-NEW 35MM PRINT!
Anthology is thrilled to revive Jerzy Skolimowski's neglected masterpiece DEEP END, in a beautiful, brand-new 35mm print! Only the second English-language film made by Skolimowski (the subject of an Anthology retrospective, running November 30-December 6 – see pages 8-9), DEEP END is an uncanny portrait of youth and sexual awakening, with a tone and mood entirely its own. Focusing on 16-year-old Mike, an attendant at a suburban-London bathhouse, and his preoccupation with his beautiful co-worker Susan, DEEP END demonstrates Skolimowski's acute sensitivity to the emotional turmoil and destructiveness at the heart of awakening desire, as well as his formidable sense of place and period. As Mike's interest in Susan deepens into obsession, DEEP END's tone becomes at once darker and more comic, culminating in a nocturnal journey through the seedy underbelly of early-seventies London, as seen from Mike's wide-eyed perspective. It's an exploration that Skolimowski invests with all the excitement and fear experienced by a fragile and impressionable mind as it collides with a strange, mysterious, and scary new world, and it's conveyed with a cinematic mastery that is simply breathtaking.
With its emotional and psychological frankness, its wonderful performances, and a score by Cat Stevens and Can, DEEP END is one of the greatest and most under-seen films of the seventies!

“Funny, touching, sexy, surreal and tragic – all at the same time and all with the sting of a punch to the nose.â€