Unfaithful (2002)
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Theatrical Release: May 10, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $52,655,427
Synopsis: Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) travels to New York City from the suburban home she shares with her husband Edward (Richard Gere) and young son Charlie (Erik Per Sullivan). It is a very windy day and, caught by a particularly savage gust, Connie falls and bumps into bookseller Paul Martel (Olivier... Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) travels to New York City from the suburban home she shares with her husband Edward (Richard Gere) and young son Charlie (Erik Per Sullivan). It is a very windy day and, caught by a particularly savage gust, Connie falls and bumps into bookseller Paul Martel (Olivier Martinez) in the process. She scrapes her knees, and Paul invites her into his apartment. She stays only briefly, leaving after attending to her knees. She passes the accident off as trivial to Edward. But, she is drawn to the younger man and soon returns to his apartment with eventually disastrous results. UNFAITHFUL is based on Claude Chabrol's classic LA FEMME INFIDELE (1969). The drama has been shifted from Paris to New York City by scriptwriters Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr. Beautifully lit by director of photography Peter Biziou, UNFAITHFUL is staged with rare subtlety by director Adrian Lyne. Diane Lane gives an extraordinarily fine performance, viscerally conveying how torn Connie is between her attraction for Paul and her love for Edward and Charlie. There is excellent support from Gere, Martinez, Sullivan and Zeljko Ivanek. UNFAITHFUL is the rare case of a remake that measures up to, and maybe even surpasses, the original. [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan, Myra Taylor
Screenwriter: Alvin Sargent, William Broyles
Producer: Adrian Lyne, G. Mac Brown
Composer: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
DVD Info
Release:
Apr 15, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
- Stereo 2.0 - Spanish
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Alternate Scenes - 1. Alternate Ending
- 2. Deleted Scenes (11; w/Commentary)
- Audio Commentaries - 1. Adrian Lyne - Director
- 2. Cast (Scene Specific)
- Behind the Scenes - 1. Editing Featurette
- 2. Making Of
- Interviews - Richard Gere - Star (THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW)
- Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailer
Text/Galleries:
- Behind the Scenes - Production Notes
- Stills/Photos - Gallery
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Reviews
Unfaithful is not so much about the conventions of a typical bored housewife falls for exotic foreigner with disastrous results story, but in fact plumbs the depths of what really constitutes intimacy, and how complacency, rather than the melodramatic ups
Devolves...from bland diversion into some truly unsettling sexual politics, and tumbles from that already low plateau into an ersatz In the Bedroom.
'Lo que vale el precio es la estupenda actuación de Diane Lane, quien encarna a la perfección el prototipo de mujer moderna con una sólida interpretación'
We are supposed to like all the characters, and yet in some way, we can't like any of them.
Would play better as a study of the human predisposition toward infidelity were its characters not so illogically single-minded and its atmosphere not so cheap-romance-novel trashy.
Diane Lane is sexy as hell in this somewhat misguided tale of marital infidelity.
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