No, this isn't the killer shark movie. This is a boring, British, based-on-a-stage-play drama that was nominated for something or other that I am finally getting around to watching. I would rather have had the killer sharks, frankly.Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz) couldn't face a loveless, boring marriage to respectable Judge Collyer (Simon Russell Beale) after the existential crisis of WWII, so she runs off with a handsome but poor flying ace (Tom Hiddleston) only to find that love very much sucks when it's not reciprocated in equal measure.
Ever been at a friend's house and they end up in a screaming fight with their significant other while you sit there awkwardly? That's what watching this movie is like.
This is very much the type of thing I imagine when someone says "stage drama." It is steeped in melodrama and a kind of crushing nihilism that fails to wring any pathos from me. The two leads are very good, especially Weisz, but they could not save this film from being an interminable slog.
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