Tilda Swinton was so good in I Am Love, the movie I panned this week, that now I’ll plug The Deep End. This 2001 thriller stars Swinton as a Lake Tahoe mom who must cover up a crime to protect her teen son. Then ER heartthrob Goran Visnjic shows up to blackmail the family. The more the situation spirals out of control, the more gripping Swinton’s performance.
This was one of my favorite movies of the 00’s. I think it’s one of the last great movies from the “indie” era before the studios starting killing their specialty branches, other than Fox Searchlight. Tilda is the only reason I would consider sitting through “I Am Love.” (Terrance)