Release Date: March 23rd, 2012
DVD Release Date: July 24th, 2012
R|1 hr 38 min
Plot Summary
Flashbacks reveal the destructive love affair between the wife (Rachel Weisz) of a British judge and a rakish RAF pilot (Tom Hiddleston).
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Hiddleston, Harry Hadden-Paton, Ann Mitchell, Karl Johnson, Jolyon Coy, Sarah Kants
Director: Terence Davies
Distributors: Music Box
The beautiful misery of The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Davies' crushing adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play - is almost too much. show more
As intensely personal and deeply felt as it is, however, Davies' attempt to breathe new life into Rattigan's 1952 play is a rather bloodless, suffocating thing, lent tragic passion more by its use of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto than by anything achieved by his star Rachel Weisz and her leading man. show more
There's such a thing as having too much reverence for your material, and although Davies is an extraordinarily gifted and principled director, The Deep Blue Sea may suffer for that reverence. show more
