London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.
Cinematography
Sickly yellows and cramped framing that traps you with Mike.
Direction
Skolimowski weaponizes coming-of-age tropes against themselves.
Score
Cat Stevens and Can create ironic distance then pull you under.
Director
Jerzy Skolimowski
Jane Asher
Susan
John Moulder-Brown
Mike
Karl Michael Vogler
Gym Teacher
Christopher Sandford
Chris
Diana Dors
Bathhouse Female Client #1
Louise Martini
Beata
Erica Beer
Bathhouse Cashier
Anita Lochner
Kathy
Cheryl Hall
Red Hat Girl
Christine Paul-Podlasky
White Coat Girl
Dieter Eppler
Bathhouse Boiler Room Manager
Karl Ludwig Lindt
Bathhouse Manager
Eduard Linkers
Cinema Manager
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the actual collapse of Swinging London, capturing the era's hangover before punk could articulate it.
Jane Asher was Paul McCartney's girlfriend at the time; her real-life stardom amplifies Mike's impossible desire.
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