3/1/2024 0 Comments Ben affleck deep waterWith Wilson watching his every move, Vic makes one last attempt to save his marriage and cover up the sins of his past. Melinda and Vic’s usual game begins again, inviting Tony to dinner, and then having Vic watch helplessly while Melinda flirts with him. Soon after, Melinda reconnects with a man she was in a relationship before she met Vic, Tony Cameron ( Finn Wittrock). He’s heard the rumors about Melinda’s last two lovers going missing, and believes that Vic not only killed them, but the piano teacher as well. Melinda invites her new lover to dinner with her and Vic to assure him that Vic had nothing to do with the other man’s disappearance, but after dinner, he soon disappears himself.Īfter an “accident” in the pool during one of their parties leaves Melinda’s piano teacher (who she was having an affair with) dead, aspiring novelist Don Wilson ( Tracy Letts), who is new in town begins to investigate. The young man, understandably concerned, tells Vic’s confession to the rest of the party, who just laugh it off, believing that Vic is not capable of such a thing. He admits that he’s responsible for the recent disappearance of Melinda’s last boyfriend, and then confesses to his murder. Their friends are aware of Melinda’s infidelities, and feel bad for Vic, who seems to just put up with it.Īt one of their parties, where Melinda is showing off a new boyfriend, Vic confronts him and makes a wild confession. His wife, the beautiful and captivating Melinda (de Armas) enjoys parading her affairs with younger men around in front of Vic and their neighbors at their frequent parties in their Louisiana home. The movie begins by introducing us to Vic Van Allen (Affleck), a computer genius who retired young because he invented the microchip used in drones. The result is a strange and uneven movie that at times is almost entertaining only because it falls into the it's "so bad it's good” category, but ultimately is just a hot mess! Premiering on Hulu beginning March 18th is ‘ Fatal Attraction’ director Adrian Lyne’s first new film in twenty years, the erotic thriller ‘ Deep Water.’ The movie stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas as a married couple whose infidelities lead to several murders. ![]() 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.(L to R) Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck in Hulu's 'Deep Water.' 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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