The End of an Affair (1999)
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| German title | The end of an affair |
| Original title | The end of the affair |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Neil Jordan |
| script | Neil Jordan |
| production | Neil Jordan, Stephen Woolley |
| music | Michael Nyman |
| camera | Roger Pratt |
| cut | Tony Lawson |
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The End of the Affair (original title The End of the Affair is a US-American-British) film drama by Neil Jordan from the year 1999 . The script is based on the novel of the same name by Graham Greene from 1951, which was first filmed in 1955.
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The writer Maurice Bendrix begins a book with the sentence "This is a diary of hate" ("This is a diary of hate"): On a rainy night in London in 1946, Bendrix happened to meet his old friend Henry Miles, who was for him a novel had provided information. Henry's wife Sarah and Bendrix immediately fell in love with each other. Still, Sarah had ended the affair abruptly two years earlier. Miles now confesses to Bendrix his suspicions that his wife is cheating on him, and he considers whether he should have a private investigator watch her. But after he renounced it, Bendrix hired the private investigator Mr. Parkis without Miles' knowledge. As the story unfolds, flashbacks show how the relationship began before the war.
Bendrix learns from Parkis that Sarah regularly visits a Catholic priest on the pretext of visiting the dentist. Bendrix's passion for Sarah is unbroken, and jealousy rises in him. A flashback shows how he urges Sarah to leave her husband for him. Sarah and Bendrix can meet undisturbed because Henry is mostly on business. The relationship between the two suddenly ends when a bomb hits the apartment. Bendrix falls down the stairs and passes out. When he later wakes up, Sarah is visibly shocked. Bendrix tells her that she is disappointed that he is still alive. Without an explanation, she leaves the room and breaks off all contact with him.
Back in the present, Parkis comes into possession of Sarah's diary and gives it to Bendrix. In it, she describes the days of separation from her perspective: When the bomb hit, she ran down the stairs and found him dead. She tried to revive him, but to no avail. She returned upstairs and began to implore God for his life. When she promises God not to see Bendrix anymore, if only he stays alive, Bendrix enters the room. Now that he knows the true circumstances of the separation, he confronts Sarah. She confesses to him without having lost any will to live and that she can no longer keep the promise to God and does not want to.
Henry, who now realizes that Bendrix and Sarah were having an affair, desperately asks his wife not to leave him, just as she has decided to live with Bendrix in the future. She goes to Brighton with Bendrix for a weekend , promises to marry him, and again the private detective Parkis is involved, this time the husband has hired. Henry tracks down the couple to inform them that Sarah has a terminal illness and has only three months to live. Henry asks Bendrix to move into his house so that Sarah is not alone during his work. They spend Sarah's last days together. Sarah is moved by the thought that her lover is alive, but that she has broken her vow and will now die in his place.
After Sarah's death, the priest tries to win Henry over for a Catholic funeral. In a hateful outburst, Bendrix accuses the priest of having broken him and Sarah up with his "humbug," which neither he nor Sarah really believe in. Bendrix finishes his book in Henry's house, and it becomes clear that his "hatred" is for God.
background
The film was shot in London , Brighton and Shepperton Studios . Its production amounted to an estimated 23 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 10.66 million in US theaters and approximately £ 3.58 million in UK theaters .
Ralph Fiennes was dubbed by Tobias Meister , Julianne Moore by Judith Brandt .,
Graham Greene wrote the novel during his affair with Catherine Walston, wife of the farmer and politician and later peer of Henry Walston , which began in 1946 and which lasted into the 1960s. He dedicated his book to Catherine Walston.
Reviews
Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times on December 3, 1999 that the film was "emotionally demanding" and had everything a love story embedded in the era needed; including the film music and the “passionate” performances by Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore. However, the film is not just a love story, it is more complex.
The lexicon of international films praised the “stylistic unity” and the “precise, sober dialogues”. The film addresses “today's audience” only “to a limited extent”.
Awards
Julianne Moore for Best Actress and Roger Pratt for Best Cinematography were nominated for an Oscar in 2000. Neil Jordan, Julianne Moore, Michael Nyman and the film for Best Drama were nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2000.
Neil Jordan won the BAFTA Award in 2000 for the screenplay . The nine nominations for the BAFTA Award included those for Neil Jordan as a director, Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore. Julianne Moore was nominated for the 2000 Screen Actors Guild Award , the Chlotrudis Award, and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award . The script was nominated for a USC Scripter Award in 2000; Neil Jordan won the Evening Standard British Film Award in 2001 for the screenplay . Julianne Moore, Ralph Fiennes, Neil Jordan as screenwriter and the film was nominated for a 2001 London Critics Circle Film Award .
literature
- Graham Greene : The end of an affair . Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-12776-7 (Original title: The End of the Affair .).
Web links
- The End of the Affair in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The End of the Affair at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The End of the Affair at Metacritic (English)