The End of the Affair
by Neil Jordan
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Actor: Heather-Jay Jones, James Bolam, Julianne Moore, Ralph Fiennes, Stephen ReaDirector: Neil Jordan
Brand: FIENNES,RALPH
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
Producer: Neil Jordan
Writer: Neil Jordan
Editor: Tony Lawson
Producer: Kathy Sykes
Producer: Stephen Woolley
Writer: Graham Greene
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The End of the Affair
Movie Review: A new classic of the cinema
Summary: 5 Stars
"The end of the affair" again carves in relief to Neil Jordan as one of the supreme directors in the world. His bull-eye approach about and around the well known autobiographical depiction of Graham Greene, in which an intense love affair will arouse a profound sentiment between these two out of the law lovers in the midst of the bloody WW2.
The drama and visual style in certain dramatic sequences reminds me to David Lean's "Brief encounter". On the other hand, Julianne Moore had never been so glamorous, alluring and passionate like in this case, his partner Ralph Fiennes, shows there was an immediate chemistry as well as the cheated husband the veteran actor Stephen Rea. But the amazing direction and secure hand of Jordan avoided this film was far to strand and fall in commonplaces thanks his admirable gifts as director.
A supreme film that must be regarded as a new classic of the cinema. Nor more neither less.
Summary of The End of the Affair
In post-WWII England, an American writer hires a private detective to learn why his mistress ended their adulterous affair so abruptly.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-MAR-2005
Media Type: DVD
"This is a diary of hate," pounds out novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) on his typewriter as he recounts the lost love of his life in this spiritual memoir (based on Graham Greene's novel) with a startling twist. It's London 1946, and Maurice runs into his achingly dull school friend Henry (Stephen Rea with a perpetually gloomy hangdog expression). Their meeting is brittle, all small talk and chilly, mannered civility beautifully captured by director-screenwriter Neil Jordan (The Crying Game), and it only barely thaws when Henry suggests that his wife, Sarah (the luminous Julianne Moore), may be having an affair. Maurice's mind reels back to his passionate affair with Sarah during the war years, which she abruptly broke off two years ago. Gripped with a jealousy that hasn't abated, he hires a private detective (a mousy, marvelous Ian Hart) to shadow her movements. He prepares himself for the revelation of a rival but instead finds a deeper, more profound secret: "I tempted fate," she writes in her diary, "and fate accepted."
Jordan's cool remove captures the unease beneath formal manners but never warms into intimacy during the scenes between the lovers, even while Fiennes and Moore almost explode in repressed emotions, their faces cracking under their masks of civility and their resolve shaking through jittery body language. There's more thought than feeling behind this collision of passion and spirituality, but it's a sincere, richly realized portrait of ennui and rage against God energized by brief moments of shattering drama. --Sean Axmaker
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