Kritiken

Their story is riveting, and their storytelling is an impeccable blend of invaluable archival footage and new material.

"Deep Water," and the impressions it leaves, can't be shaken for hours, even days, after it's viewed.

A fascinating documentary about the first single-handed around-the-world sailing race.

What really happened out there on the trimaran christened Teignmouth Electron, as it drifted toward South America and Crowhurst began falsifying logbooks and transmitting unintelligible telegraph messages? It is the point — and the power — of Deep Water that the vast, unknowable fathoms of the sea are rivaled only by those of the human psyche.

Part of their success lies in a canny decision to probe the psychology of Crowhurst's wife Clare, a sad-eyed Penelope who is infinitely more interesting than her sweetly incompetent husband.