The Deep Blue Sea

Movie Ranked #674 | 2011 - Drama, Romance
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
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Best two reviews:
1) Village Voice - Plumbing disquieting depth, Deep Blue Sea investigates the insoluble dilemma of romantic love: the expectation, contrary to experience, that we can or will find every quality that we want in a single person. (Rating: 80) Read Full Review >
2) Time Out New York - It's the stuff of melodrama, heightened by Davies's pitch-perfect use of pop songs, like a sad "You Belong to Me," slurred by a misty crowd in a bar. (Rating: 80) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
6) Slant Magazine - Its director's romantic sensibilities wed to Terrence Rattigan's 60-year-old play, this period drama is buoyed by Rachel Weisz's poignant embodiment of a bourgeois wife seeking erotic autonomy. (Rating: 75) Read Full Review >
7) The Hollywood Reporter - 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. (Rating: 70) Read Full Review >
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