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Summary: Why Can't My Booksellers Be Like Paul Martel?
Review: The eroticism of Unfaithful is the heart muscle pumping life through this movie. And what a muscle? Olivier Martinez is like a French Brando in his punkish animal seduction and compromising women. Diane Lane really plays her part well, presenting a mature understanding of "doing naughty." On one hand, I wanted to ring her neck but on the other could not blame her. Richard Gere was good, but my problem with the movie circled about this ideal husband and life. I keep going between 3 and 4 stars trying to figure out if it is subtly original in spite of the typical story about a wife straying from hubby or if it is stereotypical in spite of its subtlety. Definitely buy it, but consider partnering it with Spike Lee's 25th Hour for an interesting comparison of endings and lure of New York . The photography and set design are almost as guilty as Paul Martel for shamelessly seducing us with this entertaining melodrama. Will I be able to watch this movie once, or will I have to drive my car over barricades for one last taste.
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Summary: BORING!!!
Review: This movie wasn't anything close to Adrian Lyne's previous success "Fatal Attraction". Although the story was along the same lines, it just wasn't as intense and scary as "Fatal Attraction". It was very long, quiet, and downright boring. You will enjoy "Fatal Attraction" much better than this.
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Summary: AN UNPREDICTABLE EROTIC THRILLER
Review: What can I say, three EXTREMELY TALENTED and DROP DEAD GORGEOUS actors and one HOT entertaining movie. Richard Gere, Diane Lane, and Olivier Martinez performances are superb and exuberant with sizzling sexuality . And let us not forget the Adrien Lyne, a high-voltage director., who examines the ins and outs of marital infidelity in this movie.
"Unfaithful" is intriguing, romantic, titillating, and fascinating, portraying the need to break routine and cause change in one's life even if that change is painful and unnecessary. It also demonstrates the possible consequences of such destructive behaviors. I think some of the critiques should keep their opinion to themselves. I was fascinated and highly entertained by "Unfaithful" and have watched it several times already. Richard Gere is one the most handsome men alive. Diane Lane is absolutely beautiful. Olivier Martinez with his gypsy designer-stubble beautiful face, blue eyes and French accent has my vote for the BEST LOOKING BAD BOY.
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Summary: What a snore!
Review: I had high expectations for an Adrian Lyne film - how disappointing! The dialog is difficult to hear, as the soundtrack is SO loud and the actors all mumble their lines. There is zero chemistry between Diane Lane and the actor that plays her lover. This film is very slow and about 45 minutes longer than it needs to be. A lot of graphic sex scenes doesn't make a movie sexy and we just couldn't wait for it to be over. Overall, very, very boring.
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Summary: Old story, silly movie
Review: Unfaithful is a lousy movie. It has an old insipid plot that has been told a thousand times before.
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Summary: Uneven and Formulaic, but Lane is amazing!!!
Review: Diane Lane gives a superb Oscar nominated performance in this otherwise lame attempt at reworking director Adrian Lyne's far superior "Fatal Attraction." Lane cooly hijacks the movie as a comfortable but bored suburban housewife who lapses into an affair with a sexy French book dealer (Olivier Martinez).As Connie Sumner, Ms. Lane has very little dialogue to explain why she grasps at the promise of a dangerous fling, or how she withstands simultaneous torrents of guilt, fear, lust and joy, or what she thinks when she looks at her husband (Mr. Gere) and son (Erik Per Sullivan). There may be no words to explain those feelings, but I knew how she felt anyway, simply by watching her. This is what truly fine acting is about--this ability to communicate without words, to distill thought and feeling into the most authentic body language.Mr. Gere also rises to the occasion with an understated portrait of a confident man who stumbles ' tragically, violently ' when his assurance is shattered. Their chemistry is what ultimately makes the film work.Adrian Lyne does well with the directing duties despite the predictable, obvious, and formulaic plot. The most daring thing about the movie is not its steamy love play, but its ambiguous ending, which gives the otherwise lackluster film some much needed bite. Some viewers hate uncertain endings, but Unfaithful deserves respect for the questions it leaves unanswered. It is the performances, director, and depending on who you ask, the ending, that makes the film. Some will love this, some will hate it. All in all, this is an uneven drama, mediocre at best, but worth it for Lane's performance alone!!!
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Summary: Steamy and dark
Review: "Unfaithful" combines mystery, erotica, and drama to create this unique theme. It starts as a happy theme, but once the sexy Olivier Martinez walks into Diane Lane's life, everything changes. The sex appeal steams, then the mystery stomps on it flowing to an unexpected conclusion. The producers, the director, and the writers wonderfully make "Unfaithful" more entertaining. Diane Lane deserved her overdue Oscar nomination for her role as an unhappy wife, the best role of her career. Richard Gere wonderfully plays her character's suspicious husband whose personality changes as his anger grows. Olivier Martinez needs to star in more movies like this in the future. Those looking to steam up a night should watch "Unfaithful". It'll leave the audience breathless and shocked.
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Summary: Five stars, but not a good film
Review: The ending was terrible. The pace was dreary. On the other hand, it was highly erotic thanks to Diane Lane portaying a married woman who becomes completely overwhelmed by the sexual stimulation and exctitement she gets during a love affair with a younger man. One of the best scenes takes place when her character attempts to break off the affair, only to be physically halted from leaving by the younger lover who pins her against the wall of a backstair hallway in his appartment building and then turns her on so much that she stops resisting him and ends up being taken from behind right on the spot. It is scenes like this one than really make parts of this movie quite hot but far above and beyond the typical formula pornography that is so common in modern cinema today. Gere's character is another good one and on the whole, it is entertaining, but the ending leaves a LOT to be desired to say the least. Anyway, if you're into subtle (and at times, not so subtle) erotica, this is a good pick.
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Summary: Oliver Martinez
Review: Being a teenage boy it was good to see all of the much older than me Diane Lane. The shock to me was how hot Oliver Martinez is. He did a great job playing "Paul", one of my favorite scenes was in the hallway with Diane. He has great muscles, and his face is so hot. His lines were classic, and I would have let him do that to me anytime.
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Summary: Excellent and Nuanced Tale
Review: What's most interesting about this movie is that the script avoids the easy out that most films of its kind take--the cliche tale of the psycho lover or cold, controlling spouse. Instead, this movie weaves a very careful dance so that all three characters are sympathetic, even when they are doing ghastly things. It would have been easy to make the husband a jerk. Instead, he is a basically decent man who has some problems with communication, greed, and managing his emotions. It would have been easy to make the wife shallow and selfish so that we loathe for doing this to her family. Instead, she is a good mother, generous person, and loving wife who makes one mistake after the other as she gets caught up in an immoral indulgence. Finally, it would be easiest of all to make the lover a psycho. Instead, we get Paul--a compassionate and tender caretaker who loves books. He's also a reckless, arrogant, womanizer, but the movie is careful to temper that with his good qualities. People who think this film is about a bored housewife and a sexually violent boyfriend didn't bring enough experience or attention to the film, I fear. Connie is boxed in, not bored. She spends every day taking care of her son and her husband, the house, and other people in her charity work. She is the consummate care-taker, a crone before her time, locked into that role by her choices. Her husband is a decent person who loves her, but he is portrayed from the start as a big child. She has to tell the family what to wear, what to eat, where to be, and what to say. She controls and takes care of everything. When she meets Paul, she finds someone who takes care of her for a change, even though he is much younger. From the start, he tends to her wounds. He indulges her girlishness, and teaches her new things. And yes, he exerts physical but _consensual_ control over her in the bedroom. This movie doesn't have any rape scenes in it. People who think otherwise must have missed oh-so-subtle indications of consent such as her _literally asking him to do what he's doing_. The sex scenes are intensely passionate, raw, base recklessness is portrayed on the screen. In particular, Diane Lane manages to portray a girlish, trembling eroticism that makes the viewer hold their breath to behold it. She perfectly captures a mixture of laughter, trembling and tears--the sound of anguished surrender. Moreover, the affair itself has a tenderness to it. Again, it would have been very easy to make the relationship about a shallow physical affair, but in point of fact it's not, and the script goes to great lengths to make that evident. The most wounding thing to the husband is not the sex, but the intimacy the couple shared behind his back. The confrontation between the husband and the lover was one of the best scenes I've ever seen from Richard Gere, and a scene likely to haunt. The mood evoked is meloncholy over the follies of human beings. Overall, this is a sophistocated tale of choices, consequences, and some deep truths about lies, marriage, fidelity, and intimacy.
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