The spare and brilliant adaptation of one of Britain's greatest 20th century playwrights, Terence Rattigan, is brought to life and very much into film language by another Terence (Davies) a filmmaker's filmmaker. Retrieved 3 December 2012.The Deep Blue Sea is an intricate, subtle and exquisite looking chamber soap opera, set in post war London of 1950. ^ a b 2012 Evening Standard Limited (10 April 2012).'BFI London Film Festival 2011: Award winners announced'. Archived from the original on 14 January 2012. ^ 'Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea – Review'.^ 'THE DEEP BLUE SEA: IN CINEMAS NOW'.'Terence Davies resurfaces to begin filming The Deep Blue Sea'. The film has found a largely appreciative audience and critical success in the United States with Weisz's performance named as 'film performance of 2012' by David Edelstein of New York magazine.ģ9th Evening Standard British Film Awards The film was also chosen as one of the Top Ten films of the year by The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. In January 2012, Weisz was nominated as Best Actress in the 70th Golden Globe Awards. įor her performance, Weisz won the Best Actress Award at the 2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards and also won the Best Actress Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association in the same year. It also has a score of 82 on Metacritic based on 30 reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 80%, based on 141 reviews and an average rating of 7.11/10. The film was released to strongly positive reviews from critics. The background music is taken from Samuel Barber's violin concerto written 1939. Simon Russell Beale as Sir William Collyerįilming locations are in Buckinghamshire and London including the 3 Mills Studios in Bow.The film takes its title from her dilemma of being caught between the devil and the deep blue sea – two equally undesirable situations. Yet to return to a life without passion would be unbearable for her. Hester's new lover has awakened her sexuality, but the reckless, thrill-seeking Freddie can never give her the love and stability that her husband gave her. We soon discover the constraints of Hester's comfortable marriage, which is affectionate but without sexual passion.Īs Hester's affair is discovered she leaves her life of comparative luxury and moves into a dingy London flat with Freddie. Her suicide attempt fails and as she recovers, the story of her affair and her married life is played out in a mosaic of short and sporadic flashbacks. Most of the film takes place during one day in Hester's flat, a day on which she has decided to commit suicide. For Freddie, the tumultuous wartime mix of fear and excitement that was once in his life seems to be no longer present.

Freddie throws Hester's life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated. In 1950, Hester Collyer, the younger wife of High Court judge Sir William Collyer, has embarked on a passionate affair with Freddie Page, a handsome young former RAF pilot troubled by his memories of the Second World War.

It was released in the United States in 2012 by distributor Music Box Films. This film version was funded by the UK Film Council and Film4, produced by Sean O'Connor and Kate Ogborn.įilming began in late 2010 and it was released in the United Kingdom in 2011, the year of Rattigan's centenary. 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. 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.

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