Storyline

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.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords

boy, love interest, lady, fiancé, coach, emotional, offbeat, shocking, bathhouse, cinema, swimming pool, london, obsession, sexual advances, jealousy, business scheme, stalking, unrequited love, love, growing up, temptation, fall, 1970s

Short Review

Skolimowski's Eastern Bloc-existentialist chops finally emerge in the last act, as the futility of looking for a diamond in the snow evolves into a sex-death underwater ballet.

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