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Hkiff 2012: Day 13 Dim Sum Reviews: Headshot, Coriolanus & more
9 April 2012 3:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
My last day at the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival gave me the opportunity to finally catch up with yet another of 2011's most praised and talked about dramas with Shame, as well as new works from other British heavyweights Ralph Fiennes and Terence Davies, and a new Thai thriller that we have been following on Twitch for some time. Hkiff Day 13 (4 March)The Deep Blue Sea (dir. Terence Davies, UK)Though I was a big fan of Davies' previous films Of Time And The City and The Long Day Closes, I struggled to find much of interest in his adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play. Rachel Weisz is on excellent form as the lonely wife of a high court judge who embarks on a passionate »
'The Deep Blue Sea' director Terence Davies talks to Yahoo!
25 March 2012 6:48 PM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
The title of Terence Davies' latest film, "The Deep Blue Sea," is derived from the old saying about being stuck between two ugly choices. The movie, which was adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan, focuses on Hester (Rachel Weisz), an upper-class woman in postwar London who forsakes her comfortable, cultured marriage with Sir William (Simon Russell Beale), a high-court judge, to live in sin in a rundown bedsit with R.A.F. pilot Freddie (Tom Hiddleston). While Freddie might be an unparalleled lover, his immaturity and emotional scars from the war make him a lousy, feckless partner. The situation becomes so unbearable that, in the beginning of the film, Hester tries to commit suicide. "Beware of passion, Hester," Sir William's snooty mother warns at one point in the movie. "It always leads to something ugly." To which Hester quips, "What would you replace it with?" That pretty much »
Movie Reviews: The Meditative Deep Blue Sea and Murderous The Raid: Redemption
23 March 2012 12:30 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
The British director Terence Davies made his name in the eighties and nineties on a series of touching cinematic contemplations of his own youth, in elegant, elliptical films such as The Long Day Closes and Distant Voices, Still Lives. He has since directed a number of adaptations, including 1995’s The Neon Bible and 2000’s The House of Mirth, in which he wedded his own highly controlled aesthetic with the narrative demands of stories by John Kennedy Toole and Edith Wharton, respectively. They, however, were also artists of repressed emotion and submerged lives. Now, with his adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, Davies has taken on something of a challenge: Rattigan may have been a genteel writer, but this play about adulterous passion and disillusionment revealed a new emotional nakedness for him. So, too, for Davies, who has somehow found a way into the raw wounds of Rattigan »
- Bilge Ebiri
Terence Davies, “The Deep Blue Sea”
21 March 2012 10:43 AM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
One of the United Kingdom’s most lauded stylists, Terence Davies has carefully crafted a body of work that fits squarely into the class-conscious, post-neorealist tradition of British cinema, working without much fanfare or regard for the exigencies of commercial filmmaking that the age and his stature would seem to demand.
Now in his mid-sixties, Davies has in the last 30 years quietly established himself as one of the finest British filmmakers of his generation. He is not a cinephile and his lugubrious, sublimely photographed and insidiously hard-hearted narratives — such as 1988′s Distant Voices, Still Lives, which will screen as part of a career retrospective at BAMCinematek this week, and 1992′s The Long Day Closes, which will receive a two-week repertory engagement at the Film Forum starting later this month — draw as much from his own innate sensibility and preoccupations, and a lyrical and meditative film grammar that seems all his own, »
- Brandon Harris
Memory as Mise-en-scène: A Conversation with Terence Davies
21 March 2012 5:42 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Photo by Liam Daniel.
"I don't want you
But I hate to lose you
You've got me inbetween
The devil and the deep blue sea." —Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler
The idiom "between the devil and the deep blue sea" refers to a dilemma where one must choose between two undesirable situations. In Terence Davies' filmic adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play of the same name—The Deep Blue Sea (2011) was commissioned by the Sir Terence Rattigan Charitable Trust to commemorate the centenary of the playwright—it might be thought that Davies is playing with the idiom's unconfirmed nautical origins. As a portrait of class structure in post-wwii England, Davies could be said to be borrowing from the reference that "between the devil and the deep blue sea" signifies how English Navy sailors were pressed unwillingly into service and then positioned beneath the upper deck (officer territory). Or, perhaps more accurate to its romantic subtext, »
Terence Davies in America
19 March 2012 2:22 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"With The Deep Blue Sea," writes Nick Pinkerton in the Voice, "the great British director Terence Davies returns to the postwar period — though in a sense, he has never left. Born in 1945, Davies's cinema is defined by a mixed pity and fondness for the world of yesterday, a past he seemingly finds impossible to put behind him or to do without. The era's hypocritical propriety and quivering repression has most frequently been held up for 'enlightened,' Pleasantville-style condescension, but Davies is a great historical filmmaker because he feels the period too intimately to mock its rituals and mores, knows that no progress occurs without loss."
A retrospective of Davies's work is running at New York's BAMcinématek through March 27, while Sing, Memory: The Postwar England of Terence Davies opens today at the Harvard Film Archive and runs through March 26. On March 28, The Long Day Closes (1992) opens for a week-long run at New York's Film Forum. »
The Deep Blue Sea Trailer: Swooning Forbidden Love Between Tom Hiddleston and Rachel Weisz
28 February 2012 4:09 PM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
Passionate piano music, kisses, and forbidden love, it could only mean that we are getting another romance drama filled with the aforementioned themes and more. The Dead Blue Sea stars Rachel Weisz as Hester Collyer, whose marriage to an older judge (Simon Russell Beale) collapses when she has an affair with a suave former Faf pilot (Tom Hiddleston). The trailer focuses more on Weisz’s character who seems to be struggling with her descision of staying in her marriage and hiding her affair.
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Master chronicler of post-War England, Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth) directs Rachel Weisz as a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. In a deeply vulnerable performance, Rachel Weisz plays Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie »
- Mike Lee
First Trailer and Poster for The Deep Blue Sea Starring Rachel Weisz
28 February 2012 10:37 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The first official trailer for Terence Davies’ (The House of Mirth) romantic drama The Deep Blue Sea has gone online. Based on Terence Ratigan’s play, the film stars Rachel Weisz as a London socialite and Tom Hiddleston (Thor) as an ex-raf pilot who are in love during the 1950s. Complicating matters is the fact that Weisz’s character is already married to a high court judge, and divorce is a four-letter word in 1950s England. The trailer plays almost like a dream (those expecting Samuel L. Jackson and sharks will be sorely disappointed), and the images are seen through a very, very soft lens. The film played last year at Tiff and early word has been strong. Weisz is nearly always great, and Hiddleston is a fantastic young talent. He’s a big part of why Thor works and his brief scenes in War Horse and Midnight in Paris were highlights of both films, »
- Adam Chitwood
Us Trailer For ‘The Deep Blue Sea’ – Rachel Weisz & Tom Hiddleston Fall In Dangerous, Intense Love
28 February 2012 10:00 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
With his break-out year in Hollywood, Tom Hiddleston mixed things up with two Best Pictures nominees (Midnight in Paris and War Horse) as well as a big blockbuster (Thor). 2012 isn’t looking any different with his role in The Avengers, before a small, quiet indie. We’ve got the domestic trailer for the latter, Terence Davies‘ postwar romantic drama The Deep Blue Sea. Based on Terence Rattigan’s play, I found it a bit dry at Toronto last fall but I’ve warmed up to it since, looking back on Rachel Weisz‘s solid performance and admiring the restrained style. The trailer below gives a good feeling on what to expect and one can see it below via Apple.
Synopsis:
Master chronicler of post-War England, Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth) directs Rachel Weisz as a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
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