The Deep Blue Sea
Flashbacks reveal the destructive love affair between Hester Collyer, the younger wife of High Court judge Sir William Collyer, and Freddie Page, a handsome young former RAF pilot troubled by his memories of the Second World War.
1981, UK
12 August 1939, Ealing, London, England, UK
1 March 1948, Wales, UK
8 February 1957, Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
12 January 1961, Penang, Malaysia
9 September 1985, England, UK
9 February 1981, Westminster, London, England, UK
29 September 1923, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
7 March 1970, Westminster, London, England, UK
1974, Queensland, Australia
1980, Bristol, England, UK
May 25, 2013
Weisz makes Hester's dilemma interesting for a while, but even an actress as fine as she can't begin to mold the character into someone worth caring about.
February 04, 2013
The character is a victim of her own decisions, but Weisz's bruised performance in The Deep Blue Sea yields empathy for being battered by doomed romanticism.
October 01, 2012
[Weisz'] performance that transforms her from actress to movie star.
November 10, 2012
Rachel Weisz performs a superb star turn here, but I'm still in a deep funk after watching this gloomy drama.
April 19, 2012
A story of passion and its aftermath; of what happens when an unhappy woman goes chasing after something shiny, only to find how quickly it fades.
June 17, 2013
The movie is an exquisite period piece, slow and dank, and unduly persuaded that it's rendering a classic.
April 19, 2012
Davies doesn't provide stylish counterweights to the heavy drama. Any story that starts with a woman writing a suicide note is cheating us of an honest investment in the outcome.
April 26, 2012
The best parts of the movie, like the scene with William's mother, involve isolated set pieces in which Weisz interacts with another actor.
April 21, 2013
By the time she learns love is less about ideal romance than "wiping someone's ass" when they grow old, it's difficult to care about a problem she created for herself.
November 05, 2012
As rumbling and tremendous a meditation on self and suicide as there's ever been onscreen. Director Terence Davies has now made masterpieces across four decades.
June 18, 2013
Now a new film of the play appears, adapted and directed by Terence Davies with Rachel Weisz in that stellar [Hester Collyer] role and with Rattigan's work in a freshening treatment.
January 01, 2013
The heart wants what it wants and all that; it's anybody's guess why that might be.
