2002 Directed by Adrian Lyne
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.
Richard Gere Diane Lane Olivier Martinez Erik Per Sullivan Zeljko Ivanek Dominic Chianese Kate Burton Chad Lowe Gary Basaraba Myra Lucretia Taylor Michelle Monaghan Margaret Colin Lisa Emery Michael Emerson Geoffrey Nauffts Joseph Badalucco Jr. Erich Anderson Damon Gupton Marc Forget Larry Gleason George F. Miller Paul D. Failla Hal Smith-Reynolds Tyree Michael Simpson Liza Colón-Zayas Al Cayne Murielle Arden Salem Ludwig William Abadie Show All…
Harry Cohen Tim Gomillion Paul Massey Dennis Rogers Gregg Baxter Alan Rankin Andy Nelson Wylie Stateman Doug Hemphill Robert Renga Randy Kelley Anna Behlmer Craig Heath James Bolt Wade Wilson
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I would also cheat on my husband and try to spend as much time away from my family as possible if Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle was my child.
Under the lens of the auteur theory, it’s purely – thematically and aesthetically – an Adrian Lyne film; from the soapy production, to the story centered on sexually liberating behavior and the way this can threaten the American nuclear family.
If Fatal Attraction had ended with its alternate ending, then it – along with 9½ Weeks - would sit with Unfaithful as some kind of unofficial Lyne trilogy that dwell on very similar ideas within the blurred lines of erotic thriller conventions.
The reason Unfaithful comes out as the best of the three is the sincerity – and being Lyne’s (as of today) latest release, it exists as the first film in his oeuvre that actually embraces the Lyne style…
Unfaithful. 2002. Directed by Adrian Lyne.
Written by Claude Chabrol. 🇫🇷
Diane Lane gave the performance of a lifetime and was nominated for an Oscar. She should have won! Unfaithful was written by French auteur Claude Chabrol as La Femme infidèle. At first, Diane Lane is seems happily married with a son while living in the suburbs outside of New York. Then, on a windy day she meets an attractive French man and he invites her to his apartment. She blossoms like a spring flower that is being nourished by the sunlight and all the necessary soil nutrients. But, spring flowers are ephemeral and most affairs are fleeting.✨
Life imitates art. Art imitates life. One of Diane Lane’s friends ominously tells…
"They always end disastrously."
A melodramatic and overacted romantic thriller with an underwhelming, disappointing ending, Adrian Lyne's 'Unfaithful' offers some surprise A-list nudity, a few intense rendezvous and a slow burn plot that's overlong, stale and with a quality akin to a Lifetime movie. Diane Lane is fantastic as the lead, torn between her husband of 11 years and the intriguing French stranger she runs into on a lonely, windy day. The tryst between the two is short-lived and incredibly selfish, the two both having their own marriages they're disregarding for some momentary fun. The lies worsen at home, leading to some devastating conclusions for all involved, with the closing minute or so being ambiguously poor and unsatisfying. If you're looking for a film with closure, this isn't the one. It's nowhere near as well made as I remember it being all those years ago, and is certainly not worth the time anymore.
Having sex at say, age 16, is an actualized excitement like no other because it is in those early days the very act summons a kind of spine-tingling electricity that a few years later is kinda there but has worn off. Rarely does it ever feel the same as it did those first times. Diane Lane must be thinking of that when she decides upon invitation to go up to Spanish Romeo’s artsy-romantic flat (he’s Olivier Martinez, and I want to smack his face out of jealousy); now if she lowers her guard and lets him seduce her will there be a summoning of the kind of spine-tingling electricity that’s been missing since she started her adult life?
As a…
Scavenger Hunt #53 || August 2019
Task 15) Watch a film about an affair.
Late 90s/early 00s, erotic thrillers are one of my favourite things - but this was just way toooo much.
First of all, I'm a big fan of Diane Lane and sure she's got a rockin' bod BUT SERIOUSLY? the majority of this film is literally just close ups of her butt naked.
Secondly, why does Richard Gere look like such a creepy, middle aged, History teacher? ..
Lastly, the final 30 minutes of this film are actually pretty decent. It's just a shame that it took a whole 90 minutes to get juicy.
BLAH - over it.
Director Adrian Lyne has that habit of being able to scare the living shit out of us men with his insight into the workings of relationships. Never one to miss the chance to fully explore the nature of fidelity, monogamy, or simple lust, Lane has flirted with the subject in almost every film he's ever done. From Fatal Attraction's iconic bunny boiler to the icebox raiding of 9 1/2 Weeks, he displays our flaws, insecurities, and desires with often uncompromising honesty. Given that two of every three marriages nowadays ends in divorce, it's hardly surprising that adultery is a common theme in movies both past and present. Unfaithful may be possibly the lesser known of his works when compared alongside…
Lyne's best movie, almost a deliberate reversal of FATAL ATTRACTION. Discussed on Episode 16 of The Suspense is Killing Us.
