The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair, was a little confusing, but at the same time a great story. The acting was good. It seem as though every scene is different than the way it is shown the first time.... Full review

How can Hollywood run short on plots when there are so many great authors from early 20th century Britain alone? Consider the menu: W. Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, and Katherine Mansfield, amongst others. How... Full review

Outstanding acting, memorable story and great script! What else should I say? ... You won't forget this movie soon! It should have won an Oscar!... Full review

As so often, I haven't yet read the novel this movie was based on. So again, you can't expect from me that I make a comparison between the two. But even if I had read the book I don't think... Full review

An incrediable movie that really touched everyone who is so much suffering the pain of the endless love, hate and jealousy to a woman ...... Full review

I am in love with Ralph. Julianne and Ralph heat up every scene. The rainy scenes are so romantic even if they do consist of two love stricken men drowning in their own failures. I just feel bad for everyone in... Full review

Hard but true, this movie has an incredible plot and message. I will dare to say that it reflects true love in its essence. Ms. Moore as always: breathtaking.... Full review

A fair British production set in London during the resistance days of WWII. A married woman does her part to foster good-will between those causght in war's ugly toll. She acts as if she were possessed by goodness and kindness and... Full review

Two years after the sudden end of his affair with Sarah, Maurice bumps into her husband, Henry, who confides in him about his wife's possible infidelity. Driven by the same jealousy that plagued him during their affair, Maurice poses as... Full review

Love and the spiritual (i.e. inner) life have rarely been better portrayed! Graham Greene's novel has been translated to cinematic imagery with an almost religious devotion. It isn't easy to make profound and meaningful experience so immediate and felt as... Full review

That's why it's wonderful to see "The End of the Affair" in a theater -- and why it's also an ideal film to add to your DVD collection. ... Full Review

and why it's also an ideal film to add to your DVD collection.....It's a moody, oddly magical love story about a writer (Ralph Fiennes) and a diplomat's wife ( Julianne Moore ) who strike divine sparks during the Second World War.....That's why it's wonderful to see "The End of the Affair" in a theater --....Mordantly smart and with an ending that wrings bitter tears, Jordan's picture fuses faith, heartbreak, blasphemy and romantic transcendence..... ... Full Review

Ralph Fiennes as a jealous misanthrope -.... ... Full Review

It takes talent to make as modern a film as "The End of the Affair" seem so old-fashioned. The End of the Affair" is rated R for graphic, simulated sex, male and female nudity, wartime violence (largely overheard) and scattered profanity. ... Full Review

Moore succeeds in creating a figure who changes form....Giving a charge to the film's broodingly intellectual brand of farce is the psychic rift common to betrayed lovers everywhere.....and Rea, in a quietly magnificent performance, fills up this hollow man with a pure and pliant spirit.....Dec 3, 1999 | But Jordan keeps even the thinner sections of the film compelling.....He's the rare director equally taken with the seductiveness of beautiful images and the power of language to find, express or transform ... Full Review

As one of Britain's most acclaimed and multifaceted composers, Michael Nyman's work encompasses operas and string quartets, film soundtracks and concertos. His cinematographic collaborations-a mind-boggling 75 scores-include some of the most compelling music ever brought to the screen, most notably... ... Full Article

Four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore ("Far From Heaven," "The Hours," "The End of the Affair," "Boogie Nights"), Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson ("The People vs. ... Full Article

June 17, 2000 - Something unusual happened this spring at the Oscars, and it wasn??t just Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Three of the five Best Picture nominees were adaptations from a novel: John Irving??s treatment of his book The... ... Full Article

Friday December 3, 1999 Handsomely mounted, literate, emotionally sophisticated, "The End of the Affair" has everything a period romance should have, including a score by Michael Nyman and passionate performances by stars Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore . But to... ... Full Article

I'm not sure why very mannered and restrained love stories like The End of the Affair appeal to me. Perhaps it's because I, like the characters that inhabit movies like this, am the kind of person who keeps these emotions... ... Full Article

Sing it with me! (To the tune of 'There's Something About Cameron') His friends would say stop talkin', Obsession gets old, fast. His friends would say no stalkin', To find with whom she was last. ... Full Article