Deep Water (2007)

This is fascinating stuff... that would be better served by a magazine article or book.

The film evokes a visceral understanding of solitude at sea.

Deeply researched and compellingly presented, Deep Water is as much about one man’s misadventures on the ocean as it is about loneliness, desperation and the danger of dreams.

Not merely a documentary portrait, but an engrossing drama with more twists and turns than your average thriller.

This is pretty heady stuff, and it's constantly enthralling, particularly for something that has to use so much second-hand information.

...the less said about this film the better. It's that good.

This was a story that made front pages in its day but has been largely lost to history, and now is brought bracingly and compellingly back to life.

Some beautiful shots give unexpected texture to the film, such as an underwater capture of a boat from below, with prisms of light surrounding it. And its final image is a quiet heartbreaker.

With the discovery of films and audiotape from the first solo, non-stop nautical race around the globe, Deep Water promises to take us where we have never been.