This quirky black sex comedy is the story of a boy's bizarre and unsentimental education. Moulder-Brown plays Mike, a handsome 15-year-old whose first job has him working in the men's section at a seedy bathhouse in a decidedly unswinging London. He meets a fellow employee, sexy
23-year-old redhead Susan (Asher), who teaches him the ropes and gets him to agree to refer his male clients to her in return for her female clients so that they can both earn better tips. He soon learns to exploit his looks by flirting with the women and encouraging them to fantasize about him.
Mike develops an enormous crush on Susan but, looking upon him as a boy, she rejects his advances by telling him she is engaged. However, her constant teasing drives him wild and her affair with the swimming instructor infuriates him. Crazed with his obsessive love, he plots to break them up.
Polish filmmaker Skolimowski, who wrote the screenplay for Roman Polanski's directorial debut, KNIFE IN THE WATER, here has made a powerful, disturbing film on the sexual awakening of a young boy in a sleazy environment. The film, which has an uneasy sense of humor, is well directed, well acted
(especially by Asher), and well worth seeing. leave a comment
