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, 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
DVD Reviews of The End of the Affair
DVD Review: Good for not great
Summary: 2 Stars
I liked it but it's probably not one that I'll view more than once - a bit long at some parts and not the best acting on their part either!DVD Review: Worth a look
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
The End of the Affair never moves at a terribly brisk pace but it's one of those rare films that's populated by real characters, not pre-set heroes and villains, and is all the better for it; if you like romantic films that aren't defined by formula and pratfalls, check out this adaptation of Graham Greene's 1951 novel.
3/4
DVD 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.
DVD Review: "Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too"
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on the 1951 Catholic novel by Graham Greene that is a tale of his own love affair with Catherine Walston, this movie describes love, obsession, jealousy and eventually examines God's existence.
Maurice Bendrix is a writer, who falls in love with Sarah, a married woman, during World War II. She ends their love affair mysteriously after an incident, in which Maurice nearly dies. Maurice writes a personal story of hate and jealousy. Through flash back techniques, intense loving and passionate memories, great performances and enchanting music, the audience discovers along with Maurice the reason Sarah ended their affair.
Directed by Irish director Neil Jordan, who also wrote the screen play; the trio of Ralph Fiennes, Julian Moore, and Stephen Rea deliver outstanding performances.
Since 1999, this movie remains one of my favorites. Maurice's personal thoughts and struggle, the acknowledgment of God through man's weakness and desires was a creative idea of genius. I still remember Maurice's words:" God, you used my hate to win my acknowledgment. Take care of Sarah and Henry but please leave me alone". Great depiction of human's struggle with faith, sin, love and life.
A final word of caution: this movie might be beyond some people's limited mental capacity.
DVD Review: Mediocre movie, terrible adaptation
Summary: 2 Stars
As a standalone piece of art, the 1999 version of The End of the Affair is passable, though forgettable. Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea are very good. However, Ralph Fines is strangely wooden throughout. As an adaptation of one of Graham Greene's finest novels (and one of his "Catholic" novels), this movie largely misses the point. Greene was able to cram far more into his 150 page novel (virtually a novella) than got conveyed by this star studded movie.
Description 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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