The Deep Blue Sea (2011 Terence Davies)

Adapted by Davies from Terence Rattigan's play but looking unmistakably like one of the director's earlier films, with its slow deliberate pace, beautiful attention to period detail, and people singing.

Rachel Weisz (superb) leaves husband Simon Russell Beale for no-good Tom Hiddlestone: drama ensues. Ann Mitchell makes an impression as the landlady ("You don't know what love is..."), Barbara Jefford as the mother and Karl Johnson as a sort of doctor.

Beautifully photographed by Florian Hoffmeister; music by Barber.

Rattigan seemed to write quite a bit about affairs and unhappy relationships and it appears his father was serially unfaithful to his mother...