Unfaithful
2002 Directed by Adrian Lyne
Synopsis
Where do you go when you've gone too far?
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
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The content on display in this film had to read like pure, trashy Lifetime Original material on paper, but under Adrian Lyne's guidance and borderline-exceptional performances from both Diane Lane and Richard Gere, Unfaithful rises above several could-have-been-disastrous pitfalls.
When I first saw this movie a little over ten years ago, I was just as stunned as everyone else to witness the raw intensity of Lane's surprising portrayal of a woman who gives into sexual desires with a young stranger she meets in the street by chance. Even after all these years and a couple of viewings later, I'm still rather amazed that she decided to spontaneously push the boundaries of an otherwise risk-free resume...and it resulted in what is…
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Really good story told well.. diane lane is Great in this one and one of Richard Gere's best films
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The whole of it bathed in a certain quality and texture of shadow, not unlike that which doubles as romantic and hidden, every one of it's simple gestures on careful and warranted display, Unfaithful teases the sensuality out of its collection of sins with the power of a stiff drink. The basis of which is that both Lane and Gere are so fashionably ordinary, yet so casually - seemingly - happy until a slam-banging affair (a strikingly palpable fantasy which takes place in a variety of public and private places) cuts into the middle of this (categorically speaking) fable, whose only real crime is that it's pursuit of perfection often feels too over-the-top to be taken seriously. Lane and Martinez…
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In 1987, Adrian Lyne brought us Fatal Attraction, an sensually charged cautionary tale to any man thinking of flirting with disaster in the form of the attractive blonde he meets by chance. He practically invented the modern erotic thriller with that work of genius and fifteen years later he released Unfaithful, yet another domestic story of a married adult straying, except this time it's the woman who ends up in the bed of an attractive stranger.
Since Attraction there have been a myriad of attempts to recapture the combination of thrills, suspense and eroticism that Lyne was able to achieve but, with the rare exception, they failed to bring out the urgency and seriousness of his tone and instead fell…
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Woaft.
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Really good story told well.. diane lane is Great in this one and one of Richard Gere's best films
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2nd film of the Madness June challenge
Wow.
Lane is absolutely gorgeous in this. She has this natural beauty, even when she's crying. Her performance is also outstanding, the camera sticks to her like a magnet.
Less outstanding is Martinez, but he's probably not chosen because of his acting capabilities.
The story itself about love and forgiveness is rather thin, but interesting enough aside from some improbabilities. It's elegantly filmed, and has the looks and atmosphere from the well-known erotic thrillers from the 90s. -
One of my favourite movie scenes ever is Diane Lane's meltdown on the train.
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Unfaithful does a lot of things right. Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Oliver Martinez were correctly cast. Diane Lane looks great. The film allows us to share her shame and desire as well as Richard Gere's emotions. I think the first half of the film is set up well. An innocent encounter on the street leads to some indiscretion.
However, it does get a couple of things wrong. Their son Charlie played by Erik Per Sullivan, all I could think of when I saw the kid was Malcolm in the Middle and this kid acting like a goofball. I guess he wasn't obnoxious enough to hate and the parents loved him so that's all that matters I suppose. The second half of the film, the resolution to the unfaithfulness, I felt was out of place. Without spoiling anything I think that it just shifted the focus of the movie away from what it was trying to make us feel.
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The content on display in this film had to read like pure, trashy Lifetime Original material on paper, but under Adrian Lyne's guidance and borderline-exceptional performances from both Diane Lane and Richard Gere, Unfaithful rises above several could-have-been-disastrous pitfalls.
When I first saw this movie a little over ten years ago, I was just as stunned as everyone else to witness the raw intensity of Lane's surprising portrayal of a woman who gives into sexual desires with a young stranger she meets in the street by chance. Even after all these years and a couple of viewings later, I'm still rather amazed that she decided to spontaneously push the boundaries of an otherwise risk-free resume...and it resulted in what is…
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Solid thriller. I don't remember much of the specifics, but I know I liked it.
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I have only vague memories.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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The whole of it bathed in a certain quality and texture of shadow, not unlike that which doubles as romantic and hidden, every one of it's simple gestures on careful and warranted display, Unfaithful teases the sensuality out of its collection of sins with the power of a stiff drink. The basis of which is that both Lane and Gere are so fashionably ordinary, yet so casually - seemingly - happy until a slam-banging affair (a strikingly palpable fantasy which takes place in a variety of public and private places) cuts into the middle of this (categorically speaking) fable, whose only real crime is that it's pursuit of perfection often feels too over-the-top to be taken seriously. Lane and Martinez…