Unfaithful (Widescreen Edition)

Unfaithful is a beautifully crafted and emotionally intense film that explores love, passion, and betrayal in a way that feels raw and deeply human. Richard Gere delivers a powerful and restrained performance as a husband blindsided by his wife’s affair, while Diane Lane is absolutely mesmerizing, portraying a woman torn between desire and guilt. Her performance is so nuanced and compelling that you can feel every ounce of conflict within her.The cinematography and direction create a haunting atmosphere, making even the quietest moments feel heavy with tension. The story unfolds in a way that keeps you hooked, balancing romance, suspense, and heartbreak seamlessly. The ending is particularly thought-provoking, leaving you reflecting on the choices made by each character.If you enjoy intense dramas with outstanding performances and a strong emotional core, Unfaithful is a must-watch.

great movie watched it a couple of times

I love this video. I have watched it several times. I love anything that Richard Gere is in.I

Extramarital affairs have the potential to become addictive with devastating consequences. Such was Connie's experience. When in the throes of ecstasy all those consequences are cast aside. When at last reality strikes home there is tsunami of regret. Gere and Lane--especially Lane-- give so amazing performances. The anguish of regret that darkens the lovely face of Lane is something to behold. This movie is a warning to all who are thinking of infidelity.

I watched this movie when it first came out and remembered thinking it was good. I saw part of it on TV last weekend and then decided to rent it. I found it to be very powerful and thought both Gere and Lane really nailed their parts. But, I came away vaguely unsatisfied by the result. After thinking about it, I realized the problem was that Lynn made two movies. The first half is a very good movie about an affair and its impact on the women who is involved and her husband. The second half is a mostly bad movie about a murder and its aftermath. Unfortunately, Lynn stopped the first movie in the middle to make the second movie. If he'd continued, we would have been able to follow the aftermath of the affair to its conclusion. Connie would have been forced to try to tearfully beat back Paul's attempts to reignite the affair. She would have been depressed for some period about the end of the liason. Lynn could have found some plot device to permit Edward to get into Paul's apartment without revealing his identity so he could see the outline of Connie's body on the sheets, retrive the knicknak Connie gave as a gift and heard Connie's tearful goodbye phone message which confirmed just how deeply she had fallen in love. As Connie came out of her fog, she would have tried to reconnect with Edward and found him curiously reticent. She would eventually have come across the knicknak and photos, realized that he was aware of the affair and discovered that he was incredibly hurt and angry. To save her marriage, she would have had to find some way to salve his wounds. Otherwise, she would end up with a divorce she never intended. At some point, we would have been able to hear Edward's angry tirade without the confession of murder. We would also have heard Connie's apology/explanation/acknowlegement of the pain she caused Edward with some sort of retrospective from her on what she thought about it all. This would have been a good movie. Given how well Lane and Gere were handling their roles, it might have been a really good movie.Instead, what we got was Gere killing Paul. He hardly seems culpable since he is portrayed as being in a vodka and grief induced fog and clearly never intended murder. He then spends the rest of the movie apologizing to his wife, either implicitly or explicitly, for killing her lover. This is frankly what is so unsatifying. The first half of the movie clearly portrays Connie having created the mess. If somebody was going to suffer consequences, I, and I suspect I was not alone, wanted it to be her. I wanted her to tell us what she thought about the affair once all of its consequences became apparent. I never got to hear that. In the end, she is forgiving Edward. I wanted the question at the end to be whether Edward would forgive her, since if there forgiving to be done, it seemed to me that was the proper direction. I was simply not able to engage in the final dilemma. The whole tone of the movie was that Paul's death was not really Edward's fault. I had no interest in seeing him arrested. In short, Lynn seemed to allow what should have been a really good extramarital affair morality tale get hijacked by his fealty to the plot of the French original. Its too bad. He could have made an excellent movie.

This is definitely Adrian Lyne, same director of Fatal Attraction. Average American couple raising a son when the wife has an affair. Good cast, script, and suspenseful.

No one expects you to side with Connie nor does the film try to justify her infidelity. This is a very real and raw story of the consequences of the act. And how it can destroy the lives of everyone involved. Diane lane earned her nomination for an academy award and while Richard Gere was nominated that year for the film Chicago. He very much deserved the nomination and win for this film.

Unfaithful is a film that stirs your senses, from the initial temptation to the bittersweet ending.There are many films dealing with a man's infidelity to his wife (Lyn's Fatal Attraction, for one), but this movie takes the other perspective. It tells the story of a seemingly happily married woman's affair with a handsome stranger, and how such a chance encounter can turn everyone's life upside down.There's a lot to intrigue the viewer in this movie--from the way the clandestine affair is revealed to the sordid aftermath.Diane Lane is amazing as always, and Richard Gere's performance will floor you. If you don't feel his character's pain, especially in the pivotal scene, you must not have a pulse.What's also amazing about this movie (kudos to director Lyne) is how fleshed-out the characters are. Whereas in many films of this genre the viewer knows just whom to blame, whom to call the villain, whom to call the victim, this one, on the other hand, portrays each character with depth and empathy, blurring the lines between good and evil, accident and purposefulness, right and wrong.This film is also beautifully filmed--a lot of sepia tones (maybe a statement as to the haziness of good and bad as portrayed in the film)--and the music by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek is haunting and lovely at the same time. Perfect is what it is.A definite 5-star film.