A real cause for celebration: Terence Davies’ first drama for over a decade, since 2000’s HOUSE OF MIRTH. Adapted from Terence Rattigan’s seminal play, THE DEEP BLUE SEA is an evocative and poetic tale of simmering passion, desire and abandonment performed by a superb cast.
London in the 1950s: Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz) lives a life of privilege as the wife of a celebrated High Court judge (Simon Russell Beale). When she meets dashing, young ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston) she falls totally in love. A woman reborn she promptly moves into his modest lodgings where they build their new life together. Despite Hester’s all-consuming passion, as time passes they start to experience the painful inequalities of love and desire.
With echoes of the classic screen melodramas of the time, Davies has crafted a wonderfully lush and intense dramatic pull between emotion and repression.
