It seemed like only yesterday that cameras started rolling on Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea - mid-November, to be exact - so it's a festive treat to share a first glimpse of the film only a month later, courtesy of the kind folk at Artificial Eye.
Davies' first film since documentary Of Time In The City, which took him back to his Merseyside stamping ground, The Deep Blue Sea is another look back at a period that continues to fascinate him: the 1950s, although on this occasion the setting moves south to London and the gilded salons of post-war high society.
As this first look shows, Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston are a couple in love: she, dazzling socialite Hester Collyer; he, Freddie Page, a dashing ex-RAF pilot. The problem? She's married to a high court judge (Simon Russell Beale). In the rigid, moralistic society of '50s London, it's a forbidden love that leaves Hester with an impossible choice.
The film wraps tomorrow so a trailer shouldn't be too far behind. There's no release date as yet, but we'll be sure to keep you posted.
© Liam Daniel