Miami International Film Festival 2012

In the fifth, and possibly most exquisite, feature film by the great British writer/director Terence Davies, Rachel Weisz delivers a deeply heartbreaking performance as Lady Collyer, the heroine of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea. Feeling neglected by her conservative High Court judge husband, Lady Collyer takes up with a dashingly handsome young RAF pilot, Freddie Page (played by rising star Tom Hiddleston, who was a highlight of Midnight in Paris as F. Scott Fitzgerald). When the affair is discovered, Lady Collyer leaves her husband, but the boyish and spontaneous Freddie does not have the means to offer the Lady any real stability, and her despair mounts to a point of irresolvable conflict.

Rattigan's work has been adapted to the screen before by directors such as Oscar® winner Delbert Mann (Separate Tables), Mike Figgis (The Browning Version), David Mamet (The Winslow Boy), and Laurence Olivier (The Prince and the Showgirl, the subject of the recent film My Week With Marilyn) but Davies' careful adaptation may have captured the hushed nuances of Rattigan's texts like none other before him. Davies' trademark painterly eye and haunting use of period music brings an immediacy and raw emotion to this lush, tragic romance. - Jaie Laplante

DIRECTOR TERENCE DAVIES IS EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS FOLLOWING THE SCREENING.