The End of the Affair (1999)
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 101m
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart
Synopsis:
A writer recalls his affair with the wife of a Ministerial acquaintance and interrupts his literary treatment to resume it.
Review:
Two classic Greene themes, surveillance and faith, are showcased here. The protagonist, who twice loses his lover to her faith in a sense, is an agnostic to whom love is real only when materially present and who, though presented with two quasi-miraculous events, is not granted the epiphany we might expect in other hands. Jordan delivers the material, itself reminiscent of both Brief Encounter and The Fallen Idol, with an unfussy, if tastefully arty, style which admits sympathy for all the characters and carries enduring weight..
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 101m
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart
Synopsis:
A writer recalls his affair with the wife of a Ministerial acquaintance and interrupts his literary treatment to resume it.
Review:
Two classic Greene themes, surveillance and faith, are showcased here. The protagonist, who twice loses his lover to her faith in a sense, is an agnostic to whom love is real only when materially present and who, though presented with two quasi-miraculous events, is not granted the epiphany we might expect in other hands. Jordan delivers the material, itself reminiscent of both Brief Encounter and The Fallen Idol, with an unfussy, if tastefully arty, style which admits sympathy for all the characters and carries enduring weight..
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 101m
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart
Synopsis:
A writer recalls his affair with the wife of a Ministerial acquaintance and interrupts his literary treatment to resume it.
Review:
Two classic Greene themes, surveillance and faith, are showcased here. The protagonist, who twice loses his lover to her faith in a sense, is an agnostic to whom love is real only when materially present and who, though presented with two quasi-miraculous events, is not granted the epiphany we might expect in other hands. Jordan delivers the material, itself reminiscent of both Brief Encounter and The Fallen Idol, with an unfussy, if tastefully arty, style which admits sympathy for all the characters and carries enduring weight..