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France, Germany, United States · 2002
2h 4m
Director Adrian Lyne
Starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan
Genre Drama, Thriller
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Connie is a wife and mother whose eleven year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie runs into handsome book collector Paul, they begin an all-consuming affair. But things go awry when Edward becomes suspicious.
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
The movie doesn't stoop to cheap psychoanalysis and must be commended for a bravely ambiguous ending. But most of the credit goes to Lane, who is simply extraordinary as a woman whose body is at war with her conscience.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Doesn't reflect anyone's love or hatred for anything, just a lot of anxiety about test marketing, which means it takes a nosedive when it goes shopping for an ending.
The irony is, it's his vulgarity, this mixture of the gaudy and the glossy, that distinguishes Lyne, that makes his work identifiable and, when the story's right, such a guilty pleasure.
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Lyne's excesses are usually the kind of thing I love to hate, but Unfaithful found me pretty much following along in step with his rhythms and dramatic choices.
Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow
American movies are generally so skittish about sexuality that Adrian Lyne's appetite --and aptitude -- for exploring it in Unfaithful is a relief.
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
It's that rare kind of movie that comes along only a handful of times each year -- gut-level entertainment that's oddly profound.
Not bad for a mainstream suspensefest. Gere's good, Lane, as I said, is amazing in places and Lyne does some of his most assured work in years.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Ms. Lane has the role of her career in Connie, and her indelible (and ultimately sympathetic) performance is both archetypal and minutely detailed.
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
In the end, Unfaithful leaves you dispirited and grumpy: All that money spent, all that talent wasted, all that time gone forever, and for what? It's an ill movie that bloweth no man to good.
Despite the Gallic source material, what we truly have in Unfaithful is a tasteful, adult-contemporary ''Fatal Attraction'' redux, right down to the mister's Soho address and the happy family tucked away in the New York hinterlands.
Everyone has a past. Everyone has a secret.
Can't speak. Can't move. Can love.
Soldier. Mother. So many expectations.
Tigers don't mess around.