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Summary: what a terrible movie!
Review: So here we are after having read all the oh so positive reviews and after seeing it, I now understand why the reviews are positive, there is almost no story, talk about the performances and the dialogues especially the ones from Diane Lane, and I want people who haven't seen it yet that for the "thriller" part of it, it doesn't start before about the half of the movie which is nothing but about sex; nothing wrong with it but I don't need to go to a theater to see this. Richard Gere's performance is the only one worth seeing, the other two being just about being laid and that's about it. What a shame that US directors came to pick up that awful Oliver Martinez from us in France as if we didn't see enough of him yet! This movie is nowhere to being a classic, and is just an excuse to film some more sex for the frustrated viewers! Useless movie!
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Summary: THE OLD GREY GERE AIN'T WHAT HE USED TO BE!!!
Review: If you saw Richard Gere during the days of his first comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s in movies like PRETTY WOMAN with Julia Roberts or INTERNAL AFFAIRS with Andy Garcia, you know how good he can be as the grey haired older man, whether it's romantically pursuing a single woman he wants to be his wife (PRETTY WOMAN), or boldly sleeping with someone else's (INTERNAL AFFAIRS)! Richard Gere wasn't just aging gracefully in those movies, he was THE STAR, and he used those two movies to make himself into the first successful grey haired leading man since Cary Grant in the 1960s. But for some reason then somebody told him to die his hair brown for a series of duds, and by the time he went grey again in RUNAWAY BRIDE his tank seemed to be on empty, and now he's back with brown hair again in UNFAITHFUL, and he doesn't come across as a jealous older man, just as an old man with his hair dyed brown, sort of like how Harrison Ford was starting to look in his last Tom Clancy movies. Diane Lane is excellent as Gere's unfaithful wife, and newcomer Oliver Martinez is sensational in a similar role to Gere's small but important breakout part in LOOKING OUT FOR MR. GOODBAR--this time to seduce Gere's wife, talk about turnabout being fair play!--but when UNFAITHFUL changes from being an interesting affair into a murder, the fact that the most interesting character in the movie is dead is really bad news for Lane, Gere, and the moviegoers, because it's all downhill from there. And I don't know if a better story or a different role for Richard Gere would make a difference, because THE OLD GREY GERE AIN'T WHAT HE USED TO BE!!!
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Summary: Superb Set Design
Review: I am not very impressed with the story or the characters in this movie and I never felt very involved with any of them, but I was totally enthralled with the set design. We are given Hollywood's standard, yuppy, dream house on a lake, but inside it is actually cluttered and undecorated looking. You can believe a real family lives there, and that was a refreshing change from the pristine show homes in movies like What Lies Beneath and In Dreams. But the real stunner is the lover's Greenich Village loft. The character is a book dealer and the apartment is stacked nearly floor to ceiling with dusty old books and fragments of old sculpture, some of them very large. It is eccentric and textured and magnificent. As the camera moves through the loft you can see dust moats lit by the sun through the windows; when was the last time you saw a dusty home in a movie? You can almost smell the place. I'll admit to being a nut about this kind of thing because I would actually see this movie again, even though I didn't like it, just to get another look at these wonderful places. If there is an Academy award for best set design, this picture should win it just for breaking a few of the sterile, upper middle class, Hollywood domestic stereotypes. If only they could have done more of that with the characters they might have made a movie less forgettable than this one is and given viewers more to concentrate on than the decor.
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Summary: Powerful
Review: This movie's opening scene bears the stark ambience of impending doom, and holds onto it tenaciously for the next couple hours. I actually only saw this film because the pickings were so very slim on this past Memorial Day weekend~~~~~~~
I must say I was both pleased and surprised when UNFAITHFUL far exceeded my expectations: Here I found a subtly intense thriller where every look or little phrase spoke volumes, where the cinematography was so brilliant you could almost physically feel certain things right along with the characters: the omnipotent elements of weather - the gusting wind, the driving rain - the reckless freedom of a fast ride, the shock of a fall, a blow, a lustful touch, the sharp intake of a breath. Diane Lane, as expected, gave a stellar performance - wherein she effortlessly mixed what would seem to be a shallow and lustful inclination with so many fathoms of depth. You found yourself still bound to sympathize with her portrayal of Connie Sumner, an attractive and energetic housewife with an ideal life with the token ideal family - a precocious 8-year-old son with a doting father who happens also to be her caring and supporting husband. You even come to love her in a way - in spite of the fact that she commits to a course that steamrolls her fate as well as that of those she loves best... (And I must add that I was also quite intrigued by the many very pleasing and lovely metamorphoses performed by her hair...) I was much struck, as by a lightening bolt even, by the sudden realization that Richard Gere could act! I do say, though I'd seen him in many films upon many occasions previously, I had not ever noticed this quality so resoundingly in him before! He delivers his portrayal of the betrayed spouse with a fearsome poignancy. I highly doubt anyone could have played Edward Sumner quite so well as he has. Indeed, this role was made for him! Edward is every bit the ideal husband comfortably immersed in his ideal marriage. He runs his own company in Manhattan and indulges Connie, his active and contented wife. Connie is very much involved in auction/fundraising work, which requires her to make frequent treks into the City. It is upon one of these treks, on an immensely wind-gust day, that her life takes its drastic turn. In a likely twist of fate that would border on cliché if it weren't so well done, she literally runs head-on into a young, French bookseller. Paul Martel (played adeptly by Olivier Martinez) exudes intense charm and seductive energy. From the moment they meet, there is an almost tangible spark of sexual energy between them. It is a spark that Connie finds herself reluctant to resist. As like a magnet, she is drawn to him - and within days, she comes calling with her hair all done up, a lively twinkle in her eyes, and a sly smile on her face - the naughty, naughty girl! Just before her final fall from grace, she hesitates, but by then it is too late, for Paul has already bestowed upon the touch of her fingertips poetry in Braille. I don't want to say what happens next or give any more away than I already have. Let me only say that every scene in this film was charged with intense emotion wrought with artistic beauty. A few of these scenes were actually breathtaking in their flawless brilliancy. UNFAITHFUL is ultimately shattering to the senses. It's a devastating depiction of one of the greatest fallibilities of human nature. It left me sleepless - thoughtful and brooding over all the many little choices one must make in life, and how one wrong decision can take on a life of its own, perpetuating devastating consequences like a stone thrown in the river causing the ripples to radiate out all around it.
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Summary: On par with "In the Bedroom" nuances
Review: Having read the reviews here, both positive and negative, I decided to see "Unfaithful" for myself and decide. I have always liked Diane Lane's and Richard Gere's acting, and they did not disappoint. Diane Lane is superb as the suburban wife and mother with a contented, quiet life who seems to be doing all tasks remotely, and suddenly feels alive and impetuous due to a chance encounter with a flirtatious hunk (Olivier Martinez)on a windy NY city day. She uncharacteristically ACTS on her strong attraction to him, and through that changes the course of all their lives. ALL ACTORS WERE SUPERB. Diane showed (just in her facial expressions alone!) how she suffered with her guilt at deceiving her husband and the ambivalence of her emotions....but her carnal desires won out and she could not (or I should say, would not)quench her fire for the hunk. I disagree with viewers who say that Richard Gere's acting was stiff. That was the point! He was supposed to be a conservative, unexciting guy, but one who loved his wife immensely and was thoroughly devoted to her and their child....and also worked hard to provide them with what they had. In his job it was shown how he felt about 'betrayals' when he wasted no time firing someone who he felt wasn't being loyal..(which had round-about repercussions too). Because he so loved his wife, he definitely was 'tuned' in to her nuances, and that turn-in the-road that she took when she acted on her attraction just gets twistier! I also disagree with the viewers who said it had 'no ending'. I felt the director, Adrian Lyne, did a superb job. This movie didn't get all the hype "Fatal Attraction" did (same director), but to me it was much more realistic. The nuances were such as that of "In the Bedroom" (with Sissy Spacek) but I liked the way Lyne ended "Unfaithful" better. To me, it was clear what they were going to do. (I won't say it in case someone wants to see it.) There is no 'happy, tidy endings' when love is betrayed and families are torn apart, and the director shows this. I wish more people had seen it! It was an EXCELLENT movie..(and there have been so few of them this year). One last thing: The movie was advertised alluding to sexy scenes, etc. This is what kept me away for so long...and maybe alot of others who don't like to 'see it all' on the screen'! It was erotic and sensual in an understated, wonderful way. There were no T&A flashing.
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Summary: BEST FILM I'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME.....
Review: THIS FILM IS AN EROTIC THRILLER, THAT IS THE TRUTH, BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS ALSO VERY REALISTIC. MOST OF OUR REAL LIVES ARE EROTIC! IT IS SOMETHING THAT COULD AND VERY WELL DOES HAPPEN EVERYDAY. IT WILL MAKE YOU THINK TWICE ABOUT EVER CHEATING ON ANYONE. DIANE LANG IS MAGNIFICENT AND RICHARD GERE IS EQUALLY GREAT. EVERYONE SHOULD GO SEE THIS! WHEN I WENT TO THE THEATRE THEIR WERE PEOPLE OF ALL AGES RANGING FROM 18 TO 70 YEARS OLD. JUST DON'T TAKE THE CHILDREN OR ANYONE THAT IS OFFENDED BY STRONG SEXUAL CONTENT...BUT IF YOU WANT TO MAKE SOMEONE THINK TWICE ABOUT BEING UNFAITHFUL THIS IS THE MOVIE YOU SHOULD TAKE THEM TO SEE.....
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Summary: Complacency Infatuation Infidelity Destruction
Review: This is a great tale of infidelity brought on by feelings of complacency. However, this film focuses and explores the notion of complacency foremost and not really the act of infidelity. Is complacency just a temporary state of mind or not? Does it take a catastrophic event to jar the person out of this temporary state that leads one to infatuate? Complacency leads to infatuation, which leads to infidelity. Infidelity leads to destruction and reality. This is an excellent film. Richard Gere and Diane Lane are brilliant.
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Summary: the feeling Intense Emotion of being Unfaithful and extremes
Review: This film was very beautifuly presented and gave an excellent representation of what it feels like in a lying marriage. The emotion of the truth in situation comes across on this film beautifully. The Film shows also the possible extremes of can happen in such a relationship. The ending gave me something of a lacking resolve and left it open a little i feel but you still lean toward the correct thought.
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Summary: Took my breath away
Review: After reading some of the other reveiws of this movie I wonder if in fact we saw the same movie?? or better yet why if a person was so against infidelity would they go see it? I saw this movie because I felt I could relate to it....and I was right....I loved it because it was so believable..I loved the acting..I simply loved the whole movie...she fought so hard to resist this affair..but when she walked back in and he grabbed her...well sit back and hold on for a wild ride...she gets to experience what some of us will never have the courage too...she knew what was missing in her life and she went for it..its a brutally honest movie, very sad at times and I truly felt for each character..if you believe that we only get one go round in this life and that we should make the most of it as I do...then u will love this movie..as much turmoil as her actions caused..I know deep down she could never forget those months with her soulmate...the person who made her feel alive again...I cant say it enough ..this movie was the best..I will buy the dvd as soon as it comes out.
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Summary: Tawdry sex as a substitute for plot and intelligent acting.
Review: Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful is advertised as an adaptation of Claude Chabrol's film "La Femme Infidele. Lyne has some credentials of his own within this genre with other "love triange" formulas in his own resume, including the excellent Fatal Attraction. With a classic as the basis and a great track record himself, I had high hopes for Unfaithful. They were not realized. Lyne has excelled because he has-or had-a knack for developing an array of innovative plot twists around the "Love triangle" theme and a canny sense of casting. Both fail him here. The plot is little more than a series of tawdry and explicit sex scenes held together by weak dialog and pathetic plot twists (the adulterers are literally "blown" together outside his flat-and immediately go at it hammer and tongs-this is this films idea of "plot"). Diane Lane provides an admirable performance despite the lack of any meaningful material to work with-otherwise, everyone is clearly just going through the motions. It's sad when a real artist just cashes it in to live off his reputation. That, unfortunately, is what Lyne is all about here. A major disappointment.
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