The Deep Blue Sea

As the wife of wealthy judge William Collyer, the beautiful Hester lives a privileged but unfulfilled life. For solace she turns to William’s younger friend Freddie, a former pilot. What begins as a passionate affair soon turns into an undying love. To the disapproval of her clique, Hester decides to leave her golden cage and move in with Freddie. But Hester’s obsessive love soon alienates her new lover – and she is left teetering on the verge of an abyss. Then a new man enters her life, a former doctor and fellow outsider. Terence Davies’ new screen adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s classic play sensitively tells of forbidden love, suppressed desires and the fear of being alone.