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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea

The good news is we won’t have an insufferable wait of almost a decade between works such as was the case with The House of Mirth (2000) and Of Time and the City (2008). The other good news is that Rachel Weisz finds herself in the lead and will likely garner award mentions with this role.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 15, 2011

#23. The Deep Blue Sea

Director/Writer: Terence Davies
Producers: Sean O’Connor
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: Based on Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, Tom Hiddleston will play Weisz’s reprobate RAF pilot lover and Simon Russell Beale her stolid husband.….(more)

Cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale

List Worthy Reasons…: The good news is we won’t have an insufferable wait of almost a decade between works such as was the case with The House of Mirth (2000) and Of Time and the City (2008). The other good news is that Rachel Weisz finds herself in the lead and will likely garner award mentions with this role.

Release Date/Status?: If this is not ready for Cannes, then Venice.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).