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Friday 28 September 2018

The End of the Affair (1999)

Based on a Graham Greene novel (that I've not read), Neil Jordan's TEotA is a powerful study of love, albeit one measured by unconventional methods.
Maurice Bendrix (Fiennes) and Sarah Miles (Moore) are the couple having the affair, while Sarah's husband Henry (Rea) worries about her from afar.
Structured as a kind of literary confessional from the obsessed Bendrix, there's more than one truth in play; each one unfolds in a dramatic but organic manner, revealing the motivations and fears of the lovers at key moments. The full story is a lot more interesting than it appears to be at first.

4 fictional values out of 5

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