Thursday, 19 July 2018

Unfaithful (2002 Adrian Lyne)

Anne Coates keeps cutting on motion, rather wonderfully; but in the main, its the cross-cutting between unfaithful wife Diane Lane (and lover Olivier Martinez) and Richard Gere that provides the frisson. Otherwise it's a curiously flat enterprise, quite sexy, but not thrillery at all (like its source, Chabrol's Une Femme Infidèle) - and perhaps it should have been. The 'tattoo' he draws on her for example - if she hadn't realised it was there...

Anyway, it's nicely shot by Peter Biziou, and the leads are good. Erik Per Sullivan (Cider House Rules) is the kid. Written by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr, with a pianoey score by  Jan Kaczmarek.


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