Unfaithful

Attractive blonde Connie (Diane Lane) lives with her husband and eight-year-old son in a family house outside New York. On her way into town she meets the amiable Paul by chance, who takes her to his flat full of antique books. Nothing happens during their first encounter but Connie can’t stop thinking about this bohemian-looking young man. She seeks him out once more and they become lovers. Their sexual experimentation grows into a passionate erotic relationship which eventually comes out into the open. The deluded husband (Richard Gere) has Connie followed, he acquires evidence in the form of compromising photographs and then pays his rival a visit. In a fit of anger he kills Paul and manages to get rid of the body. But Connie finds out the truth… This psychological thriller with its erotic subtext is a remake of Chabrol’s film Unfaithful Wife (1969) in which the central figures were played by Stéphane Audran and Michel Bouquet. Director Adrian Lyne again proves his ability to create an attractive setting, particularly evident in the passionate love scenes. The piquant story about a “dangerous liaison” also probes the female psyche and presents a testimony of the lives of middle-class Americans. The director toys with props (murder weapon) and the atmosphere of growing passion and increasing suspicion to form a drama about guilt and conscience with an open ending…