Synopsis
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
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Cast
- Rachel WeiszHester Collyer
- Tom HiddlestonFreddie Page
- Simon Russell BealeSir William Collyer
- Harry Hadden-PatonJackie Jackson
- Jolyon CoyPhilip Welch
- Karl JohnsonMr. Miller
- Ann MitchellMrs. Elton
- Nicholas AmerMr. Elton
- Sarah KantsLiz Jackson
- Oliver Ford DaviesHester's Father
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
In this typically exquisite, nuanced, memory-infused work from master British filmmaker Terence Davies, we believe every minute of the torment of Hester (Rachel Weisz). - 80
Empire
This isn't traditional heritage cinema and it may not tickle the same taste buds that devoured "Tinker Tailor" or "The King's Speech." It does, however, represent the unique vision of an artist who needs to be met halfway, and in an age of hubbub, its patient elegance is a rare thing we should nurture. - 80
The Guardian
Rachel Weisz performs with enormous intelligence and restraint. - 80
Variety
Davies is in fine form here, with luminous performances, especially from Rachel Weisz, rounding out a classy package whose only major problem is it may be a bit too true to its period sensibility and legit origins. - 80
The New Yorker
Sex is the subtext of everything that happens, yet this may be one of the least erotic movies ever made. It's stern and noble, very much in the Rattigan spirit. [26 March 2012, p.108] - 80
Time Out
It's the stuff of melodrama, heightened by Davies's pitch-perfect use of pop songs, like a sad "You Belong to Me," slurred by a misty crowd in a bar. - 80
Village Voice
Plumbing disquieting depth, Deep Blue Sea investigates the insoluble dilemma of romantic love: the expectation, contrary to experience, that we can or will find every quality that we want in a single person. - 75
Slant Magazine
Its director's romantic sensibilities wed to Terrence Rattigan's 60-year-old play, this period drama is buoyed by Rachel Weisz's poignant embodiment of a bourgeois wife seeking erotic autonomy.
