![]() If you’re looking for any signs of heat or sparks onscreen from the now-defunct Benana relationship, Deep Water will let you down: the pair only share one brief sex scene that’s almost over before it begins. Then Deep Water got into tabloid territory when word got out that stars Affleck and de Armas had begun investigating each other in real life, and not like private detectives. But when another lover of Melinda’s ends up dead in a pool following a party, Vic’s jokes don’t seem as funny in fact, one of his neighbors, a pulp fiction writer named Don Wilson (Tracy Letts), decides to investigate Vic and find out the truth.ĭeep Waterhas attracted some attention for two reasons: initially, because it was the first film in 20 years from director Adrian Lyne, who made his bones with several sexually charged thrillers like the classic Fatal Attraction and the not-as-esteemed 9 ½ Weeks, Indecent Proposal, and Unfaithful (his last film before this, made in 2002). One of Melinda’s many lovers, a fellow named Martin, disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and Vic constantly jokes that he was the killer - he even scares away Melinda’s newest boy toy (Brendan C. Yet for reasons unfathomable to us, he stays with Melinda despite the constant humiliation. If there was an Olympics competition for being cuckolded, Vic would easily walk away with the gold medal. Flush with cash and retired, Vic lives in a posh New Orleans mansion and does things like raise snails, publish a photography/poetry magazine, and ride his bike through abandoned warehouses.Īnd, oh yes, he also spends most of his time watching his hot mess of a wife, Melinda ( Ana de Armas), come and go as she publicly takes one lover after another, openly spending time with them among both the Van Allens’ friends and their larger social circle. In other words, he’s invented something that helps kill people, as numerous characters remind him throughout the film, not that he cares what they think. ![]() Ripley) - was shoved off a theatrical release by 20th Century Studios and shuffled onto a Hulu premiere berth instead.īen Affleck plays Vic Van Allen, who’s fabulously wealthy due to his invention of a chip that the military uses in its battlefield drones. Just 10 minutes in, it’s all too clear why this turgid “erotic” thriller - based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, no less ( The Talented Mr. Yet like that proverbial car crash we’re always hearing about, it’s hard not to keep looking at it. But it’s not for you either, and it’s not for anyone who likes a well-written, well-directed, and well-cast motion picture. It was last filmed in 1981 as Eaux Profondes with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert, this time Affleck and Ana de Armas are the couple in a toxically and then murderously dysfunctional open marriage.Īffleck plays Vic Van Allen, a super-wealthy tech guy who lives in a rather Updikean circle of well-to-do attractive couples he retired young with little to do other than obsess about his gorgeous, free-spirited wife Melinda (De Armas) and her flagrant extramarital flirtations and flings the understanding is that she is open about it with him, and Vic has persuaded himself that this excites him, but he is secretly becoming more and more enraged.Gonna let you know right up front: Deep Water is not for me. Legendary British director Adrian Lyne has returned to film-making after a 20-year gap with this laboriously paced and sometimes bafflingly edited erotic thriller, based on the 1957 novel by Patricia Highsmith. ![]() A quick way to alcohol poisoning would be a drinking game where you take a shot every time there’s a long closeup in this film of Ben Affleck looking silently unshaven, disgusted and also turned on, yet not turned on enough to change that slack-jawed facial expression in any meaningful way. ![]()
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