Obviously a product of its time, this British film is a coming-of-age drama that focuses on a high school dropout who goes to work and a public bathhouse and find his first love, something that he's not ready to handle. The film documents his arriving to work on his bicycle, is meeting with the manager and him being shown what to do, is encounters with various customers and the obsession that grows to the girl he has a crush on.
John Moulder Brown does a fine job as the young man, pretty good for someone with little to no experience, and Jane Asher is very amusing as his feisty crush. Diana Dors is hysterical in a cameo, using the young Brown as a part of her sexual games then throwing him out with no emotion. This gives a good view of the "times, they are a changin'" era, free in many ways but heartbreaking for someone who can't handle it. But not all time capsules are successful, and I just got weird vibes looking in on this one.
John Moulder Brown does a fine job as the young man, pretty good for someone with little to no experience, and Jane Asher is very amusing as his feisty crush. Diana Dors is hysterical in a cameo, using the young Brown as a part of her sexual games then throwing him out with no emotion. This gives a good view of the "times, they are a changin'" era, free in many ways but heartbreaking for someone who can't handle it. But not all time capsules are successful, and I just got weird vibes looking in on this one.