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2002 Certificate 15
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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 .. Read more

Starring Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Eric Per Sullivan, Olivier Martinez
Director Adrian Lyne
Genres Drama, Thriller

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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 UNE 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.

Starring Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Eric Per Sullivan, Olivier Martinez, Zeljko Ivanek, Dominic Chianese, Chad Lowe
Director Adrian Lyne
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 58 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 06 Jan 2003
Production year: 2002
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Director Adrian Lyne made a big impact in the 1980s with slick but enjoyable erotic dramas such as Nine ½ Weeks and Fatal Attraction. He returns to familiar territory with this remake of Claude Chabrol's La Femme Infidèle, a tale of adultery and its violent aftermath transplanted to suburban New York. Diane Lane is flung into the path of French super stud Olivier Martinez and embarks on a steamy affair that jeopardises her happy marriage to Richard Gere. But sexual ecstasy comes at a price — at least in an Adrian Lyne film. Gere can smell a rat and engages the services of a private detective. It's very stylishly executed, both visually (excellent camerawork from The Truman Show's Peter Biziou) and in the performances of the leads. The only let down is an ambiguous ending, which just smacks of opting out.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Effective drama, though it falls short of Chabrol's original film; it is notable for Diane Lane's performance as the adulterous wife.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 25 out of 39 people found this review helpful

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    i found this film to be slow and dull! richard gere is not convincing as the jealous husband and as for the two lovers ...... i felt more of a spark last time i got a static shock than what you get fro these two! my advice rent

    it if you need something to put you to sleep.

      • Gemma#26 from SURBITON
      • Posted 04 Nov 2004 02:14

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    Rated - 3 stars

    Hey! Half A Good Flick!

      • Simon Shaw from Exeter
      • Posted 21 May 2007 18:25

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    Richard Gere and Diane Lane – together at last for the third time! And they still have next to no chemistry. They first crossed body fluids in Francis Coppola’s underrated The Cotton Club nearly a quarter of a century ago. He was 34. She was 18. Neither of them had enough pull to make the movie a hit. Cut to 2002. Adrian Lyne casts them as a married couple and this time moviegoers are all for it. But it was Lane’s dalliance with Olivier Martinez that sold Unfaithful, while... Read more

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      • 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, ...