Colin Firth as a broken war pilot in bed with your feelings? Devastating.
Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors alert her husband, who arrives at the flat only to find her fully recovered...
Acting
Wilton's silent devastation, Firth's volatile fragility—uncomfortably real.
Writing
Terence Rattigan's dialogue: every polite sentence hides a scream.
Director
Karel Reisz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1994 TV adaptation was Karel Reisz's final film before his death; he directed the original 1952 stage production's star Peggy Ashcroft.
Rattigan wrote this in 1952 after his own lover left him for a younger man; the 'deep blue sea' metaphor was his bitter goodbye to queer love hidden in plain sight.
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