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A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleRachel Weisz - in what has to be the performance of her career, and there have been lots of good ones - plays an intelligent woman in the grip of a lust that's too big to handle or suppress. She can either ride the tiger or be devoured. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsBetty Jo TuckerRachel Weisz performs a superb star turn here, but I'm still in a deep funk after watching this gloomy drama. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)It's about getting your heart broken and what can be learned from that. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThe beautiful misery of The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Davies' crushing adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play - is almost too much. |
| OregonianShawn Levy"The Deep Blue Sea" isn't a big or bold or conventionally ambitious film. It's only a superb one -- which, I fear, may not be enough to garner it the attention it deserves. Feel free to prove me wrong. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin... an indigo tone poem about romantic restlessness - some call it "lust" - that is at once devastating, infuriating and a little unsatisfying, despite the best efforts of the actors and some genuinely beautiful visuals. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeDavies visually enhances the content of the play in a purely cinematic way. |
| NECNErick WeberHave your exit route mapped out before the lights go down. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenWhile the film has some of the same characters as the play, the crucial relationship between Hester and the former doctor, Mister Miller (Karl Johnson of "Hot Fuzz") is reduced to almost nothing in the film. |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikThe heart wants what it wants and all that; it's anybody's guess why that might be. |