[FILM]
DEEP WATER
Vic (Ben Affleck) and Melinda (Ana de Armas).
Jade Fernandez as Jen, Tracy Letts as Don and Rachel Blanchard as Kristin.
★★
OUT 18 MARCH
CERT TBC / 115 MINS
DIRECTOR Adrien Lyne
CAST Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts, Rachel Blanchard, Lil Rel Howery
PLOT Vic (Affleck) is a wealthy former tech designer, living in a marriage of mind games with his younger wife Melinda (de Armas). After a joke about a missing man – also a former friend-withbenefits of Melinda – arouses suspicion in his small-town community, Vic seemingly becomes embroiled in a series of murders.
ON PAPER, ADRIAN Lyne looked like a safe bet when it came to choosing a director to bring an erotic, psychological thriller like Deep Water to life. Based on the Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name — about a husband and wife, the lovers she takes, and the fallout of a lie about murdering her last paramour — it is exactly the type of story that the filmmaker behind 9½ Weeks, Indecent Proposal and Lolita would be suited to. And yet, after a 20-year absence since the release of his last film, 2002’s Unfaithful, Lyne seems to have softened his edges.