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Summary: A Predictable Pleasure
Review: This is by no means a 5 star movie. I'd actually give it 2.5 stars, if it were possible. Right from the start you basically can see how it's all going to end. I felt as though the director tried to cover up the weak predictable script by making every scene overly-dramtic with pounding music and flashy camera moves. The acting however, made up for the predictable story.
Diane Lane is by far the best thing about this movie. She did give a great performance, as a selfish immature mother, although it is not Oscar worthy. The other characters were cliched, and the French guy with whom Diane's character has the affair, is downright annoying.
All in all, this is a slightly entertaining movie worth watching when you have nothing better to watch.
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Summary: Stunning! A masterpiece of provocative and sensual cinema
Review: I always loved Diane Lane as an actress, but here she is just incredible. She gives an Oscar worthy performance as Connie Sumner a woman who descends into a living hell after starting an adulterous affair with a handsome starnger. The premise sounds familiar but in it's execution "Unfaithful" is a very different kind of thriller. It's a classy film with great acting and a very engrossing and stylish tone. Very highly recommended, especially for Diane Lane's incredible acting.
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Summary: DIANE LANE gives years best performance in scorching drama!
Review: A nothing short of brilliant film with brilliant acting by DIANE LANE (The Perfect Storm, Judge Dredd). LANE is amazing the film and the acting by all concerned is amazing. I loved this film. One of the years best! The DVD is very, very good with a great picture and great sound. There are lots of very good extras. 5 stars from me for Unfaithful. A scorching drama!
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Summary: Unfaithful
Review: My husband and I rented two movies, one being Unfaithful. After 2-3 minutes we realized we had already seen this movie about 18 months prior. Even though neither of us really enjoys seeing a movie a second time, we could not turn it off. As the story unfolds, I asked myself how I could watch a movie about someone being unfaithful, when my first husband lead a double life for 3 years. But there is something compelling about this movie. So conflicting, yet understandable. It was one of the most sensual movies I have seen in a long time. My husband and I had the same reaction to it the second time we had the first time. We made wild passionate love for two days afterwards. We just wish we could get the sound track from the movie to keep in our bedroom for those special nights. See this movie with your spouse. No friends or kids in the room.
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Summary: I must admit .......
Review: I originally only watched this to see Diane Lane naked. But I became involved enough in the story to actually feel a bit sorry for Richard Gere. Believe me that's hard to do considering I generally don't like him in any movie he's in (the only notable exception is Primal Fear). The story progressed into areas I didn't expect, and therefore kept me interested until the end. Speaking of the ending, I didn't much care for where the audience is left at. The alternate ending in the DVD sheds a little more light into it, but I didn't like it either.
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Summary: Sexually Charged Thriller
Review: In these present times, adultery is unfortunately very common and it is actually often overlooked and expected. In this movie, the whole concept of cheating on your spouse is examined. Diane Lane, who is absolutely breathtaking in this role, is a happily married wife who encounters a very charming and very sexy(of course)frenchman played by Olivier Martinez. He seduces her in the ways all women dream of. He is intelligent and playful and daring. She succumbs to his charms and embarks on an affair that ends disastrously when her loyal husband(Richard Gere) finds out. Gere is very compelling as a man trying to understand what is going on with his wife. He is so loyal to her that it made my heart ache for him. The acting in the film is wonderful. The plot keeps you guessing. The scenes between Lane and Martinez are extremely sexually charged. Overall, I definitely would recommend this movie.
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Summary: Drop your sno-globe and come out with your hands up!
Review: UNFAITHFUL is a film that might perhaps tap into a viewer's double standard regarding extramarital sex. Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) and her husband Edward (Richard Gere) seem to have all the ingredients for a perfect marriage after eleven years of togetherness. They live in a perfect house in an affluent New York City suburb and have a child, a well behaved son, enrolled in the perfect school. Edward is financially successful as the head of his own business, and is apparently an excellent provider. Connie doesn't have to work, but spends her time soliciting for charities. They have bountiful food on the table and drive upscale, late model cars. All are physically healthy. The household is free of disruptive emotional extremes. Some would kill for much less. One day in the Big Apple, a violent windstorm literally blows Connie into the arms of a used-book merchant, Paul Martel (Olivier Martinez), staggering down the street with a burden of tomes. Both fall to the pavement, Connie scraping her knee. Paul is young and handsome. Paul invites Connie up to his apartment for tea and band aids. Such is Connie's starvation for seduction and passionate intimacy that she's soon visiting the city on a regular basis for a discrete affair carried on not always so discretely. Edward becomes suspicious after odd answers to the usual end-of-the-day query, "What did you do today, honey?" Edward eventually hires a gumshoe to follow her. I first saw Diane Lane in the TV miniseries LONESOME DOVE and thought "What a sweetheart!" In UNFAITHFUL, it's "What a Babe!" - but, hey, let's not allow that to color my opinion of her performance here. Lane is superb as a subliminally bored woman feeling the conflicting emotions - giddiness, guilt, exuberance, mortification - of an illicit affair, a turmoil wonderfully illustrated as we watch her face and body language as she comes home on the commuter rail after her first intimate encounter. Lane, not Gere, is the star of this film, though the latter is perfectly adequate as the man who slowly realizes he's being cuckolded. My minor disenchantment with the movie is an ending too open-ended for my taste, especially as it occurs in front of the local police station. Though the viewer must certainly think that Connie is making a Big Mistake for the long term, I had sympathy for her short term actions. I'm left wondering if this is a gender-based opinion. Would I have felt different if the roles of Ed and Connie had been reversed, and the former had been doing the cheating? I suspect so. And would a female viewer have a harsher opinion of Connie's choices? I liked UNFAITHFUL for the questions it raises. I think it much better than the response it received while in theater release. Oh, and I never realized sno globes were built so sturdily. Mine with the cute, little bunnies in the forest shattered early on.
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Summary: Flawed Adultery
Review: The first hour of the film is mastery as the Gere's wife steps off the path of respectability into an affair. During this time it has a sensitivity that evokes both compassion and distain for her actions. You understand it at one level but abhor what she is doing on another. It is the next hour that is horrible. The hour in which Gere rights the wrong and faces the torture of his actions. Why is this placed on the man? Why can't a woman, in American cinema, face the reprecussions of her actions? The movie becomes silly as the sin is removed from her shoulders and taken up by her husband. While it would be good to think that romance can survive adultery, and that love might be the husband's primary motivation, his actions in Unfaithful border on stupidity at the exact time when the film desperately needs saving. The movie would have been much more interesting had the wife been murdered or was indeed the murderer. But even in adultery, it seems in fair hollywood, the woman is still sacred.
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Summary: Great movie, acting and the story was superb.
Review: The three main actors, Diane Lane, Richard Gere and Olivier Martinez, do an absolutely wonderful job with this movie. This is not a female version of Fatal Attraction as some have suggested. At least I did not feel it was so. BASIC STORY:
Diane Lane is the happily married mid-forties woman who accidentally meets a young incredibly attractive man in his 20s who, is obviously attracted and interested in her. Her husband Richard Gere is a cuddly lovable, happily married and successful man. What really blows you away, is why would she stray? Oh yeah, this young man is drop dead gorgeous, sexy and is patiently interested in her.. Deadly combination.
This young man, is like light to the moth of Diane Lane's character and she keeps coming back despite the potential harm to her family. Since she is doing such a shoddy job of hiding her involvement, in her intensity to see this young man, Richard Gere's character begins to suspect something. INTERESTING COUNTERPOINT:
At one point in the movie, Diane Lane's character is seen by some friends in the young man's neighborhood and she is forced to have lunch with them to allay suspicions. Olivier Martinez's character comes to the restaurant to have a dailliance in the back with Diane Lane's character, while she is supposedly in the ladies room. However, these ladies in conversation make it quite clear when they see Olivier Martinez that they feel he is wildly attractive. One even goes as far to say, she would go to bed with him in a second. The other, is wilting while recalling a former affair that she has had and its devastation. Diane Lane's character is forced to see both sides of the coin. ACTING AND ACTION ARE INTENSE:
There are some pretty steamy scenes in this movie. Diane Lane does an excellent job also of showing both her mixed feelings and reckless abandon. You see her maniacly pursuing this forbidden relationship, once it is is started. Richard Gere is great as the devoted husband. He is playful and lovable, but not stupid. He does everything he can to understand what is going on, until he has proof in his hands. Olivier Martinez, is one very attractive and compeling young man. I'm sure we will see him even more in Hollywood (in English speaking films) now that he has done this movie. He is wonderful as the young lover. I won't go further than this, but the movie takes some twists you don't expect and some you do. Wonderful job. Very entertaining. I think this movie will make some people think. It could start some very interesting conversations.
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Summary: Fabulous film with fabulous acting on a fabulous DVD. 5 star
Review: Unfaithful is a fabulous film with fabulous acting by star Diane Lane. The DVD is feature packed and the audio and video are exemplary. A fabulous film on a fabulous DVD. 5 stars and highly recommended!
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