The Sea (2013 film)

The Sea is a 2013 BritishIrish drama film directed by Stephen Brown. It is based on the novel of the same name by John Banville, who also wrote screenplay for the film. The film premiered in competition at Edinburgh International Film Festival onJune 2013. The film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Producer of the film Luc Roeg said that Ive wanted to make a film of John Banvilles haunting and soulful novel for several years and its been worth the wait. Im excited to introduce a new film maker, Stephen Brown, to world cinema and I couldnt be more delighted with the cast and crew weve assembled together with our producing partners at Samson Films.The sea premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival and received mixed reviews. Rating it at 710,the Screenkicker website said intimate, superbly acted meditation on grief and abandonment that will make you think about how we cope with tragedy. Marc Adams, chief film critic of Screen Daily wrote, the films emotional still waters run deep and the film is gently watchable as a series of fine actors deliver nuanced and powerful performances. Guy Lodge from Variety wrote This good, middlebrow adaptation of John Banvilles Booker Prizenovel sacrifices structural intricacy for Masterpiecestyle emotional accessibility. And added Afforded the least, but most searing, screen time are Annas final days, which economically imply longerrunning problems in Maxs marriage. In a uniformly strong cast, a superbly terse Cusack cuts that little bit deeper as a dying woman who understandably has no time for her husbands hovering pain. ........

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