The Deep Blue Sea (12A)
- Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, Ann Mitchell, Harry Hadden-Paton
- Director: Terence Davies
- Duration: 98 mins
- Year: 2011
Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life as the beautiful wife of a High Court judge, though theirs is a companionable rather than a passionate marriage. When Hester meets a young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), she falls devastatingly in love with him, and to the shock of those around her she leaves her marriage to live with him in shabby lodgings. But as time passes, Hester comes to realise that the dashing but damaged Freddie is unable to return her all-consuming passion, just as she is unable to return her husband's love.
Reviews
Alison Rowat's Review
Terence Davies, of Distant Voices, Still Lives and Of Time and the City renown, returns with a gorgeously rendered romance worth swooning over.
Set in London as the Second World War ends, The Deep Blue Sea, from Terence Rattigan’s play, is the tale of Hester and Freddie (Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston). He’s an ex-pilot missing the adrenaline rush of war, she’s a judge’s wife who has fallen head over stilettos for him.
Weisz is as heartbreaking as she is beautiful, Hiddleston confirms what an exceptional talent he is, while Simon Russell Beale near steals the picture as the cuckolded husband.
Creaky at the start, but Davies is a master at appealing to the head, the heart and the visual senses. See it and weep.