Critics went off The Deep End at the Cannes Film Festival grappling with this disturbing yet absorbing suspense thriller, in part because it is shot through with sexual tension.
Many dismissed it out of hand as Hollywood nonsense, even though co-writers and co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel are so 'not' Hollywood, especially if you consider their unique debut film Suture. But The Deep End is problematic in some of its storytelling, unnecessarily obtuse at times and too blatant at other plot junctures.
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