About The Deep Blue Sea

You know the feeling of enduring a bad experience when every second feels painful; and every minute is excruciating? Sometimes this happens to me in the theatre; rarely in the cinema. Maybe I’m just lucky. Perhaps. But yesterday my luck ran out. I watched Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea, his new adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play. It is an abysmal film, truly dreadful, absolutely dire. His extra plotting is nonsensical, the storytelling incompetent, the evocation of 1950s working-class life sentimental, and the acting a masterclass of awkward, stilted and charmless performance: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale — how could you? Oh, and the musical soundtrack is utterly unbearable. So I nominate this ghastly charade as the worst film of the year.

© Aleks Sierz

1950s adaptation bad art film Rachel Weisz Simon Russell Beale Terence Davies Terence Rattigan The Deep Blue Sea Tom Hiddleston