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Unfaithful-20th
Century Fox-1.5 Stars
Diane
Lane is Connie Sumner, a suburban wife and mother who decides
to have an affair with Paul Martel (Oliver Martinez), who
is French, a used book dealer and much younger then her.
It all
starts so innocently when during a very windy day in New York
City she bumps into Paul and falls down cutting her knee.
They both immediately want to jump each other but initially
don’t admit it to one another. He invites her upstairs
so she can get a band aid from his medicine cabinet. Before
she leaves his place, Paul gives her a book to read and tells
her she can come back anytime to borrow more books.
At the
beginning she tries very hard to avoid her impulses driven
by her sexual attraction to him. Soon she loses control and
they start having a very torrid love affair that includes
not just bedroom acrobatics. It also includes having hurried
sex in a public bathroom and in a movie theatre.
Not long
into her adultery, Connie’s husband Edward (Richard Gere)
starts to suspect that something is wrong with their relationship.
One indication is that she keeps lying to him about her whereabouts.
Connie also buys sexy clothes for herself without telling
or showing her husband. Edward hires a detective to follow
his wife and when he finds she is having great sex with another
man things start to get bad.
You would
think with all that going on some sparks will fly all over
the place. But even with Adrian Lyne, the director of Fatal
Attraction and 9.5 Weeks at the helm of Unfaithful, there
is very little stimulation and lots of awful acting supporting
a terrible script that feels like a cheap cable movie.
Now don’t
get me wrong, Diane Lane is a very sexy woman and not a bad
actress normally however she is got nothing to work with here
and very little chemistry if any with Richard Gere. With very
little to do, Gere is no better playing his part very low
key and boring the audience with his lackluster performance.
If you
are looking for a movie that’s at best is just a tease
directed like a badly executed lap dance then Unfaithful is
for you.
Gil Benzeevi
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