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The End of the Affair (1999)

Drama | 102 minutes
3,11 192 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 102 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / United States

Directed by: Neil Jordan

Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Rea and Julianne Moore

IMDb score: 7,0 (25.310)

Releasedate: 3 December 1999

The End of the Affair plot

"The end was just the beginning."

1939. Sarah Miles is married to Henry and although she loves her husband, she does not share intimacies with him. When she meets Maurice, the attraction between them is so strong that they plunge into a passionate affair. Suddenly and for no reason Sarah leaves her lover. When Maurice gets the chance two years later to find out the reason for Sarah's decision, he grabs it with both hands.

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Maurice Bendrix

Henry Miles

Mr. Savage

Mr. Parkis

Father Richard Smythe

Lance Parkis

Dr Gilbert

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Madecineman (moderator films)

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This came up last night while I was channel surfing, and I couldn't remember much about it other than that it was really, really boring and very, very long. Oh yeah, and all the actors, including 12-year-old boys, watch for two hours like they really need to pee. What a bunch of difficult faces.

Luckily, I'd had a few cups of coffee way too late yesterday evening, so I could really use a nightcap, and this movie is perfect for that! It works better than a DVD with fish or a fire guaranteed

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"Love is like hypnosis," a film once said. In The End of the Affair, the writer, the protagonist Maurice, deliberately chooses to intertwine fiction and reality. The director takes it a step further by making the film's characters aware that they are characters in a fictional story. Illusion and reality become entangled in an attempt to escape the oppressive reality: the inevitable end.

Fiennes plays the respectable, yet somewhat stiff, English gentleman who loses himself in a passionate affair with his mistress. The highlight is, of course, the climax of the act, accompanied by Michael Nyman's enchanting music. Julianne Moore's lily-white nudity was at least as breathtaking as the chemistry between her and Fiennes. Magnificent!

Fiction offers the opportunity to illuminate events from multiple perspectives. Which one comes closest to the truth remains a matter of interpretation. The story poignantly exposes the protagonist's struggle; the incomprehensibility and ruthlessness of a supreme being versus humanity's search for redemption, explanation, and above all, love.

The atmosphere, acting, visual quality, set design, and musical accompaniment were all spot on. Not a masterpiece, but certainly a film that rises above the average.

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A writer has an adventure and writes a book about a writer who has an adventure and writes a book about it.

That the film is soporifically dull shouldn't be surprising. Even when the writer in question is Graham Greene. What certainly doesn't help is that the very, very fine cast, led by Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore, don't exactly deliver their best performances ever. As @madecineman so aptly put it twenty years ago, it feels more like they desperately need to go to the bathroom. A really big one.

What also doesn't help at all is that the story plays on morals that are decidedly outdated. We've long since stopped assuming that marital fidelity will actually be celebrated until death, and faith is more of a symbolic and nostalgic event at the end of the year than something that's actually practiced. But without those two rock-solid beliefs, and the perceived need to keep up appearances for the outside world, the whole story falls apart completely. I wonder if anyone will even understand what it's all about in a generation or so.

The book is apparently considered one of Greene's best works—perhaps due to its devoutly Catholic morality. I don't see it that way, and I'll happily pass on the earlier film adaptation from 1955. I thought The Quiet American was much better, and there's an earlier film adaptation of that as well, which seems like a better choice.

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