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This is a HOT movie!
I bought this movie because I love Richard Gere and want anything he is in. This is the first movie I have ever seen where he is not being the sexy character. But he is wonderful as the betrayed husband. Diane Lane was wonderful in her part as well. But, Olivier Martinez, I fell in love (lust) with. He is the sexiest man I have seen in a long time and I could listen to him talk about anything forever, what an accent! He and Diane Lane were so hot together. The sex scenes were every woman's fantasy. I totally loved it and will watch it again and again.

Surprisingly A Good Movie
I have read alot of reviews here that expressed displeasure for this film based on the notion that this was basically "softcore porn for housewives" and had nothing new to offer it's audience. Ok, granted; this is not the most original film/script ever written, but I think that many reviews have missed the point of this film. Behind the obvious guise of a morality tale showing what can happen if you stray from your marital vows, there is a rather amazing piece of art to be seen. This film is not about marital infedelity, but, rather, about DRAMA. This is what we in the Theater refer to as Drama As Art, meaning that the plot is less important than the impact that the various plot points have on the characters, creating more and more and more drama as the story unfolds. As is the great ballets or stage plays the DRAMA is the star of the production, not the actors or the plot lines.

And in this respect, 'Unfaithful' excells! Watch carfully as the world slowly turns itself upside down and rips itself to shreds around these two people based on a SINGLE MOMENT IN TIME (the first scene outside of his apartment: Should she go in? Should she go home? One choice, one mopment in time, a world of difference). Based on her choice, the drama begins to build to a point when, at the end of the film, the DRAMA is the star, not Geer and Lane. And Drama does a fine job holding this otherwise middle-of-the-road film above the frey.


Efficiently Delivered
Slick, sleek and genteelly erotic, Unfaithful is a high-gloss morality play from the Architectural Digest School of Infidelity, where the handsome furnishings arouse as much emotion as the protagonists' tangled lives.Though it is difficult to take Unfaithful as seriously as it takes itself, on its own terms it's quite well done. A director for more than 20 years, Lyne practically invented R-rated sexual encounters; Sargent and Broyles are top-flight writers; and Martinez and Gere, who 20 years ago might have played the Martinez role himself, do everything right, albeit in a bloodless kind of way.The only performer who manages to get inside her character is Lane. Whether it's her initial half-distrustful tentativeness, her later sensual abandon or her never-ending ambivalence, Lane's Constance seems to be actually living the role in a way no one else matches, a way we can all connect to. Her reality is the only thing that makes this artificial world worth inhabiting.

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