Diane Lane Shines in Unfaithful (2002)


A couple living off in a remote county in New York went through a seven year itch of sorts, eight actually as they have an eight year old son already.  Connie Summers (played by Diane Lane) regularly goes into the city to shop when she met a dashing and handsome stranger in Paul Martel (played by Olivier Martinez).  She scraped her knee in this first encounter and Paul offers to treat her injury at his apartment.  Paul initially made advances at her but she eventually evades this by leaving his apartment with Paul's books in tow.

Somehow there was mutual attraction so when Connie finds Paul's phone number in the books she got from him, she calls him and gets invited back to his apartment.  She visits again and something happened between the two.  To continue with this illicit relationship Connie uses a lot of reasons just to meet with Paul, this number of ruses alarmed her husband Edward Summers (played by Richard Gere).  

His suspicions arose when Connie's visits into the city became frequent and she was wearing stylish clothes, shoes and lingerie.  In one of her visits she mentioned that she has a salon appointment but Edward later confirmed that she lied.

Edward then hired a private investigator and was shocked to see pictures of Connie and Paul together.  During this time also, Connie decides to end things with Paul as she felt that their relationship was already making her neglect her duties as a mother and wife.  When Connie left Paul's apartment for the last tryst time, she barely missed Edward who went to the apartment to confront Paul about his wife.  In a fit of rage, Edward killed Paul.

Edward then cleaned Paul's apartment of evidences of him and Connie ever inside the apartment and proceeded to dump Paul's body in a landfill.  Everything went back to normal between our couple until the memories of the past haunted them with the police investigating the whereabouts of Paul.  The couple lied of course to the police and Connie was surprised that Edward corroborated her alibi.  Connie then realizes that Edward knew that she was having an affair after seeing the pictures from the private investigator Edward hired.  She also realized that Edward did indeed killed Paul.

They argued and Edward wanted to turn himself to the Police and Connie objects.  She says that they find a way to return to a normal life like before.

In the last scene, Edward together with Connie and their son stopped at a red light when Connie mentioned they can leave the country and assume new identities.  Edward agrees.

This movie is oozing with sex and who would think that Diane Lane could be so sexy?  The sex scenes here are the main draw of the film and who can forget Paul's apartment, Paul's hallway and the restroom?  When the seven year itch comes, we thought it was the husband who usually scratches it in films, here we have the wife who did it.  Making it more interesting as to how the story would unfold.

We were not expecting twists and turns here as we were honestly waiting for the next time both Connie and Paul would meet (you know why).  We felt sorry for Richard Gere's character here when they do meet and we comment Gere for his portrayal of the husband.  We can feel how he loved his wife, working hard and staying loyal to her.  In spite of his efforts, Diane Lane found herself weak and gave into the arms of a young man.  

A typical story of middle aged couple trials with a reversal, it showed how a wife's realization of an illicit affair turns her back to her loving family with a murder twist along the way.  A simple watch if you ask us but it will leave you thinking in the end.  With the police closing in to our couple regarding Paul's death, they said they might run and go abroad to hide using new identities, yet Edward stopped near a police station.  Will he push with his surrender or not?  

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Diane Lane

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