Are any Cinemas showing Deep Water?

boggybrn

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I've read all the marvelous reviews of the film Deep Water. It was due out yesterday, but I haven't been able to find a cinema showing it.

I'm down on the South coast, and would have thought that somewhere in Portsmouth / Southampton would show it!

Does any one know where it it showing?

Thanks
 
The report in the YBW news said go to the website to find out where it's being shown. But I've not found anywhere on that site that says so. I may just hope that it stays in the cinemas long enough for me to see it when i'm next in London.
 
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Bit of a bummer - I escaped a business trip this weekend and would like to have seen it. Thanks for passing on the message though I can't imagine why she didn't tell me herself /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Thanks both. That's made the prospect of going all the way down there a whole lot more appealing than it was when I was just going to check the battery and sponge out the bilge!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Harbour lights does good food and drink - so make a night of it. There's also a large vue/odeon/warner multipex down there which isn't so good.
 
Never managed to get to Harbour Lights in the end, but still caught the film at the Curzon Soho tonight. Highly recommended, easily four stars, perhaps bordering on five.

The same producers made “Touching The Void”, for those that remember it from a couple of years back. However, the impact of “Deep Water” is considerably greater because it relies not on reconstructions but on actual footage, shot by Crowhurst and Moitessier in particular, as well as Crowhurst’s own audio tapes. All of the footage and tapes have been cleaned up digitally and the quality is excellent. This is backed up by sympathetic interviews with Crowhurst’s widow and one of his sons, as well as R K-J and others, including Crowhurst’s closest friend, whose closing eulogy is quietly, but very deeply, moving. I had a lump in my throat in the end and a couple of people sitting near me were openly crying.

It’s not all doom and gloom. There are some wonderful light touches, including the contemporary interview with Crowhurt’s publicist who explains his approach to making ‘boring’ achievers into interesting public figures, and the wonderfully gallic response of Bernard Moitessier’s wife when informed of his decision to give up the race and keep on circling the globe alone, both of which had the audience laughing. And a distant memory of my own, as a small child - R K-J interviewed by the TV off the coast of New Zealand, obsessing over “pint of good old English beer”.

Tilda Swinton’s narration is sparse and low-key, standing back and allowing the protagonists to speak for themselves over the archive footage.

FilmFour helped to finance the movie, so no doubt it’ll appear on Freeview sometime soon, and this is just a limited theatrical release. Nevertheless, do try and catch it if you can, it’s wonderful seeing all that footage up there on the big screen. It’s on at the Curzon Soho until at least this coming Weds night.
 
It will be interesting to see, used to know his son Roger about 20 years ago through our local dive club. It was only much later that I knew whose son he was. Is he involved in the film?
 
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