London film festival dives into The Deep Blue Sea - in pictures

The 55th BFI London film festival drew to a close last night with a screening of Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea. Here's Terence on the red carpet, preparing to get his back slapped raw by the finest celebrity audience Leicester Square can throw at him. The Deep Blue Sea is a drama about a married woman who embarks on a fraught affair with an RAF pilot, but let's not let that stop us launching a load of seafaring puns on to this gallery's choppy waters Photograph: Samir Hussein/Getty Images for the BFI

The stars board. Here's Tom Hiddleston having a whale of a time with his girlfriend, fellow actor Susannah Fielding. Tom stars in The Deep Blue Seam as a dashing military man who woos Rachel Weisz's bored housewife away from her stick-in-the-mud husband (Simon Russell Beale) Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP

Out-going festival director Sandra Hebron makes waves. But she won't be rocking Davies's boat. She told the audience of her 'lifelong love' of his work before the screening Photograph: MAX NASH/AFP/Getty Images

Terry Gilliam arrives wrapped in ship's sail, ready to weather the emotional storm churned up by The Deep Blue Sea Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage

Jim Broadbent arrives looking ship-shape. Not literally of course. That would be very, very strange Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage

David Walliams walks the red plank with his first mate (and mum) Kathleen. Walliams swam the channel, so he may be the only person here who knows what the bottom of the deep blue sea actually looks like Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage

Actor James Purefoy slips the camera some smoulder. He could hoist our main sail any day etc Photograph: Dave M Benett/Getty Images

Actor Antonia Campbell-Hughes finds her sea legs Photograph: Fergus McDonald/Getty Images

Hiddleston and fellow star Sarah Kants steady themselves as the good ship Deep Blue Sea pulls into port … Photograph: Samir Hussein/Getty Images for the BFI

… while the voyage has left producer Kate Ogborn looking a little green Photograph: Samir Hussein/Getty Images for the BFI