The End of the Affair

Reviewed by: JackVincennes

June 15,2000

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The End of the Affair: Ralph Fiennes plays the same brooding, angry, obsessed pain-in-the-ass pathetico he played in The English Patient, only this time, he's mooning over Julianne Moore, not the frigid Kristin Scott Thomas. Neil Jordan's film is as grim as WWII era England, Moore is naked an awful lot, and Stephen Rea steals the picture with his stoic yet growing turn as Moore's cuckolded yet loving husband. Still, we are stuck with the mongoose-like Fiennes bemoaning the loss of his love over and over and over again. Grade: C.

 

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