London to swim in The Deep Blue Sea
The 55th BFI London Film Festival (LFF, October 12-27) will close with British veteran Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea [+see also:
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Adapted by Davies (Of Time And The City [+see also:
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LFF Artistic Director Sandra Hebron said, “It’s a great pleasure to be able to close the festival with this exquisite new feature from one of our most cherished directors. Terence Davies is a film maker who the BFI has supported from the very beginnings of his career, and in Terence Rattigan’s centenary year, this beautifully directed and acted film is the perfect closing night film.”
Producers Sean O‟Connor and Kate Ogborn said, “It’s very much a London-based film, so it feels just right for the film's first UK outing to be at this wonderful festival. It’s a particular pleasure for us to introduce a new film by Terence Davis - returning to the period and themes of his most celebrated work. All in all, for many reasons, it feels like coming home.”
Davies said, “As a British filmmaker, to get into the BFI London Film Festival at all is bliss - to get a Closing Night film is sheer heaven! The Festival is now, rightly, seen as one of the major European and World Film Festivals; championing not only British but World cinema.”
The UK Film Council and Film4 in association with Protagonist Pictures, Lip Sync Productions, Artificial Eye and Camberwell/ Fly Film Production produced the film.
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