The Sea – DVD review
A man mourning the death of his wife revisits a house that was the scene of his childhood passions
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Stephen Brown, 2013
Independent
John Banville adapted his own beautiful but unremittingly grim Booker-prizewinning novel into a film to which the same adjectives apply. Max Morden (a perpetually anguished Ciarán Hinds) is mourning the death from cancer of his wife (Sinéad Cusack) and revisits a house on the wild and lonely Irish coast, now a silent guest house run by Charlotte Rampling, that was the scene of his intense childhood passions. Through several flashbacks too many, we discover the young Max’s summer of infatuations, yearnings, tragedies small and large. Grief can be more subtle than this.
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