The Sea

Name: The Sea
Genre: Drama
Released: July 7, 2017
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Ciarán Hinds, Joe Gallagher, Karen Scully, Karl Johnson

2017

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Independent | Release Date: July 7, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Ciarán Hinds, Joe Gallagher, Karen Scully, Karl Johnson, Matthew Dillon, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Ruth Bradley, Sinead Cusack

Summary: The story of a man who returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.

Director: Stephen Brown

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Guy Lodge

Apr 15, 2014

[A] good, middlebrow adaptation — which, despite being scripted by Banville himself, sacrifices much of the novel’s structural intricacy for Masterpiece-style emotional accessibility. Read full review

Ed Holden

Apr 15, 2014

It’s impossible to escape the sense that Banville’s work is best experienced on paper. Read full review

Time Out London Cath Clarke

Apr 15, 2014

The film can’t match the novel’s elegant, startlingly excellent Booker-Prize-winning writing, but a first-class cast (including Charlotte Rampling and Sinéad Cusack) make this an absorbing watch. Read full review

Deborah Young

Apr 15, 2014

Despite its careful control of tone and a raging central performance by Ciaran Hinds, which is actually sufficient reason to see the film, this story of a man who plunges into childhood memories in the aftermath of his wife’s death remains admirable but wingless. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

Jul 6, 2017

What’s impressionistic on the page has to be re-sculpted and honed to a point on screen, but the result is that the novel’s tenderly hidden secrets become rather blatant twists. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Jul 6, 2017

Though handsomely photographed and featuring a compelling cast, the Ireland-set memory piece — adapted by John Banville from his Man Booker Prize-winning novel — will leave audiences wondering how much more satisfying the muted drama might be on the page. Read full review

The Guardian Mike McCahill

Jul 6, 2017

Hinds is a strong, wounded presence, but the laboured structure cuts insistently around him to get at a psychology mostly scrambled in translation. This Sea's just too choppy. Read full review

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