The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

Directed by

Terence Davies

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 313 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman in an unhappy marriage starts a passionate affair with a younger former RAF pilot. The story follows her struggle between duty and desire in post-war London.

melancholicintimatebittersweetslow-burnemotionally rawrestrainedvisually subdued

What happens

The Deep Blue Sea is a 2011 British romantic drama film written and directed by Terence Davies and starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, and Simon Russell Beale. It is an adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play The Deep Blue Sea about the wife of a judge who engages in an affair with a former RAF pilot. This film version was funded by the UK Film Council and Film4, produced by Sean O'Connor and Kate Ogborn. Filming began in late 2010 and it was released in the United Kingdom in 2011, the year of Rattigan's centenary. It was released in the United States in 2012 by distributor Music Box Films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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