Rachel Weisz's 'The Deep Blue Sea' to close London Film Festival

Rachel Weisz's The Deep Blue Sea has been announced as the closing night movie for this year's BFI London Film Festival.

The Terence Davies-directed romantic drama will premiere at the 55th annual festival on October 27. The movie is Davies's first narrative feature since 2000's The House of Mirth.

The Deep Blue Sea stars Weisz as the wife of a British Judge who gets caught up in an affair with a Royal Air Force pilot. Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale also feature in the movie, which is based on Terence Rattigan's 1952 play.

Davies said of Deep Blue Sea's LFF premiere: "As a British filmmaker, to get into the BFI London Film Festival at all is bliss - to get a Closing Night film is sheer heaven!

"The Festival is now, rightly, seen as one of the major European and World Film Festivals; championing not only British but World cinema."

Rachel Weisz will also open the festival with her romantic drama 360. Co-starring Jude Law and Anthony Hopkins, the movie portrays a series of interconnected relationships across the globe in a single narrative.

The BFI London Film Festival, which will announce its full lineup next week, runs from October 12-27.

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