The characters were great and well cast. The subject is all too real. But to make it the way they did was a waste of film. It should have been done as a limited cast play with one set, one café table, a hotel bed and a street lamp. The unspeakable sex act is pure Alfred Hitchcock and his "Magubgub" (?), the off stage, undefinable object that is never to be revealed. The interviewer is completely gratuitous and could have easily be handled in the modern way that many television interviews are handled, without an interviewers voice. I would add one very large sheet to the play set as the pseudo-sex scenes need to be portrayed in the modern neo-Victorian manner - painfully tasteful, non-gratuitously, part of the plot - thus keeping the censorious "R" rating in America.
Review of An Affair of Love
