The Deep Blue Sea
Three by Terence Davies
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1h 38m
Directed by Terence Davies | 99 mins | 2011
In a tour de force performance, Rachel Weisz plays a woman brought to breaking point after shunning her husband, a High Court judge (Simon Russell Beale), in order to pursue a passionate affair with a dashing but troubled former RAF pilot (Tom Hiddleston). With an atmosphere weighted by words unspoken, Terence Davies’ swoon-inducing distillation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play reveals the love triangle to be the least stable of structures.
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A Quiet Passion
Directed by Terence Davies | 125 mins | 2016
Emily Dickinson’s particular combination of intense brilliance and private, suppressed desires make her an ideal subject for the cinema of Terence Davies. Here, the atmosphere in the Dickinson family home is at first leavened by piquant but convivial r... -
The Neon Bible
Directed by Terence Davies | 92 mins | 1995
Based on John Kennedy Toole’s Southern Gothic Bildungsroman, Terence Davies’ third feature is both his first adaptation and his first set outside England, but feels just as steeped in heady memory as his earlier works. His vision of 1940s rural Georgia ...
