Unfaithful
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Unfaithful |
| Original title | Unfaithful |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adrian Lyne |
| script |
Alvin Sargent William Broyles Jr. |
| production | Adrian Lyne G. Mac Brown |
| music | Jan AP Kaczmarek |
| camera | Peter Biziou |
| cut | Anne V. Coates |
| occupation | |
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Unfaithful is an American relationship drama from 2002 directed by Adrian Lyne . It is a free remake of the French classic The Unfaithful Wife by Claude Chabrol . Diane Lane and Richard Gere play the leading roles .
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New Yorker Connie Sumner, her husband Edward, and their son Charlie are a happy family. The parents lead a typical American model marriage that is slowly beginning to become routine. By chance, on a stormy day in New York's Soho district, Connie meets the much younger bookseller Paul Martel, who offers her help with doctoring a wound. After trying unsuccessfully to get a taxi, she consciously lets an apparently free taxi pass by and goes with him to his apartment. There she initially resists Paul's obvious offers and leaves. A few days later, however, she gets in touch again, and finally they both begin a passionate affair with regular meetings that always take place during the day and for a few hours. Most of the time they meet at his apartment, but they also have sex in a movie theater and in the bathroom of a cafe that Connie went to with two friends.
Edward notices changes to his wife, such as new clothes, and eventually becomes suspicious when she gets caught up in excuses and lies. Connie and Paul are also seen by one of Edward's work colleagues, who does not reveal them, but makes Edward insecure with a hint during the argument. Edward finally hires a private detective to provide him with compromising photos of evidence and Paul's address. Meanwhile, the affair becomes more and more of a burden for Connie, since she can only think of Paul and he is not always available for her. When she finally catches her lover with a much younger playmate, she wants to part with him, but succumbs to his sex appeal again and has sex with him in the stairwell.
At the same time, Edward went to Paul's apartment. He only misses Connie by a few seconds and wants to confront the young man who opens the door for him - wearing only a coat. Paul invites Edward for a glass of vodka and admits the affair with a certain indifference. Edward is initially still collected, but then gets furious when he learns more details, for example that Connie talked about him or that she gave her lover a snow globe that he originally bought for Connie himself. He grabs this snow globe that he discovered in the rumpled bed and kills Paul with it.
First Edward, shocked by his own deed, wants to call the police, but then decides to cover his tracks and dump the body on a garbage dump. A little later, the police appear for questioning at the Sumner's, as they found Connie's phone number in Paul's apartment. The police exposed Connie's statements as false after Paul's body was found, but there are no clear indications that would speak in favor of her or Edward's perpetration. When Connie finds the photos of the private investigator in Edward's clothes while collecting the laundry, she realizes that Edward knows about their relationship. And when she rediscovered the snow globe she gave Paul and which Edward used as a murder weapon in her home, she realizes that Edward is responsible for Paul's death. Despite the massive disappointments, both feel that they still love each other and want to stick together.
In the final scene, Connie, Edward and Charlie sit in a car at an initially red light in front of a police station and discuss how to proceed. Edward wants to face the police after all, but Connie suggests emigrating to Mexico and starting a new life there. It remains to be seen how the story ends.
Reviews
“Less socially motivated than the film's predecessor, but a representation of threatened self-control and sexual seduction. Diane Lane in the female lead gives the film a remarkable rank that the story and the rest of the cast often miss. "
“Although Richard Gere as a horned husband is more convincing than ever, cheater Diane Lane has never been more erotic and Olivier Martinez (The Hussar on the Roof) lives up to his nickname 'the French Brad Pitt ', the drama doesn't really get going, the overstylized erotic scenes appear sterile. That would undoubtedly have been hip in the 80s. But, thank God, they are long gone. "
background
- In an alternative version of the ending, Edward gets out of the car and enters the police station. Production company Fox preferred this version, but the director and actors strongly advocated the open end, so it was adopted. (The alternate ending is included in the Extras on the Special Edition DVD.)
- Brad Pitt and Ryan Phillippe were under discussion for the role of Paul until he was redesigned to French and Martinez got the part. The role of Edward was offered to Robert Redford before Gere .
- Lane was instructed by director Lyne to watch the German film Aimée & Jaguar in preparation for the love scenes.
- In the film, Paul is a young man around 28, while Connie is portrayed as a more mature woman who could be in her late 30s or early 40s. In fact, the actors only separate a year, Martinez was 36 years old in the year of shooting, Lane 37 years old.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Jan AP Kaczmarek , a Polish composer. It is a calm, piano-oriented work, in which above all the feelings and the conflicting impressions of Connie Sumner are presented.
Reception / Awards
Unfaithful was received very positively by the critics and was a huge hit at the box office. Lane catapulted herself into the premier league of Hollywood actresses with the role of Connie and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar . It also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award , the National Society of Film Critics Award, and the Golden Satellite Award, and has won the Screen Actors Guild Award , the Online Film Critics Society Award , the Chicago Film Critics Association Award, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nominated.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Untreu was nominated for the 2003 Costume Designers Guild Award and the Motion Picture Sound Editors Award .
In 2004 an Indian remake was made under the direction of Anurag Basu with the title Murder . The main roles were played by Mallika Sherawat , Emraan Hashmi and Ashmit Patel .
Web links
- Unfaithful in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Unfaithful atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for unfaithfulness . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2002 (PDF; test number: 90 901 V / DVD).
- ↑ Age rating for infidelity . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Unfaithful in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Unfaithful in Cinema .