THE DEEP BLUE SEA is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. I don’t see a lot of films, so maybe its agonizing slowness, unfocused editing and lack of plot (Rachel Weisz as a woman bored with stuffy aging hubby and wrong for Navy guy paramour–devil or deep blue sea, get it?) occur regularly in other films. Terrence Rattigan wrote it in 1952, but fantasy blitz flashbacks don’t further the action.
I writhed in my seat but didn’t walk out, because its reviews were so good that I was sure something–anything–would happen in a few minutes. No such luck, despite gently revolving camera work and burnished English-homes lighting. The score, from nowhere, was the Barber Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn. You can believe all the reviewers, or stay home and play your Barber CD.
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