How can the same director who gave us "The Crying Game" with its provocative situations and characters, come up with something as banal and boring as this? It really looks like a small-scale, small-budget television piece, and the interesting thing is that you can watch it without sound, because the story is so simple and predictable. But, even there, they will show you many scenes twice, to make sure that you understand that reality is different depending on the person who is looking at it. Wow... I was expecting a nice recreation of the London atmosphere after the war; we were offered one aerial view of London and a couple of outside scenes where we can streets and houses. The rest of the movie could have been filmed anywhere in the world. A final point to illustrate my deception : I sincerely think that there are better ways to suggest the heroine's growing illness than the gross coughing Julianne Moore was asked to simulated. In my opinion, this movie has been made with a deliberate disregard of all the advances made in movie-making in the last forty years. It is so strange to see, back to back, a movie like this one and a movie like "Being John Malkovich"...
Review of The End of the Affair
