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{{Short description|2002 American erotic thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne}} |
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movie_name = Unfaithful | |
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| image = Unfaithful (2002 film).jpg |
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writer = [[Alvin Sargent]] and [[William Broyles Jr.]] (Screenplay)<br>From ''[[La Femme infidèle]]'' by [[Claude Chabrol]]| |
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| caption = Theatrical release poster |
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starring = [[Diane Lane]]<br>[[Richard Gere]]<br>[[Olivier Martinez]] | |
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| director = [[Adrian Lyne]] |
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| producer = {{Plainlist| |
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distributor = [[20th Century Fox]] | |
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* Adrian Lyne |
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release_date = [[May 10]], [[2002]] | |
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* G. Mac Brown |
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runtime = 124 min | |
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movie_language = English | |
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| screenplay = {{Plainlist| |
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* [[Alvin Sargent]] |
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imdb_id = 0250797 | |
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* [[William Broyles Jr.]] |
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}} |
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| based_on = {{Based on|''[[The Unfaithful Wife]]''|[[Claude Chabrol]]}} |
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| starring = {{Plainlist| |
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* [[Richard Gere]] |
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* [[Diane Lane]] |
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* [[Olivier Martinez]] |
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* [[Erik Per Sullivan]] |
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}} |
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| music = [[Jan A. P. Kaczmarek]] |
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| cinematography = [[Peter Biziou]] |
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| editing = [[Anne V. Coates]] |
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| studio = {{Plainlist| |
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* [[Fox 2000 Pictures]] |
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* [[Regency Enterprises]] |
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}} |
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| distributor = [[20th Century Fox]] |
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| released = {{Film date|2002|05|10|United States|2002|07|08|[[Karlovy Vary International Film Festival|Karlovy Vary]]}} |
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| runtime = 124 minutes |
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| country = United States |
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| language = English |
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| budget = $50 million<ref name="numbers">{{cite web |title=Unfaithful (2002) - Financial Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Unfaithful-(2002)#tab=summary |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] }}</ref> |
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| gross = $119.1 million |
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}} |
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'''''Unfaithful''''' is a [[2002]] [[movie]] directed by [[Adrian Lyne]]. It was adapted by [[Alvin Sargent]] and [[William Broyles Jr.]] from the [[French language]] film ''[[La Femme infidèle]]'' by [[Claude Chabrol]]. |
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'''''Unfaithful''''' is a 2002 American [[erotic thriller]] film directed and produced by [[Adrian Lyne]] and written by [[Alvin Sargent]] and [[William Broyles Jr.]], adapted from the [[Claude Chabrol]] film ''[[The Unfaithful Wife]]'' (1969). Starring [[Richard Gere]], [[Diane Lane]], [[Olivier Martinez]], and [[Erik Per Sullivan]], the film follows Edward (Gere) and Connie Sumner (Lane), a couple living in the suburbs of [[New York City]] whose marriage is jeopardized when the wife has an affair with a stranger (Martinez) she encounters by chance. |
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==Plot summary== |
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{{spoiler}} |
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The story centers on Constance "Connie"/"Con" ([[Diane Lane]]) and Edward "Ed" Sumner ([[Richard Gere]]) as a couple living in the [[New York City]] suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when she indulges in an adulterous fling. |
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''Unfaithful'' was theatrically released in the United States on May 10, 2002, and was screened at the [[37th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival]] on July 8, 2002. The film was a box office success, grossing $119.1 million against its $50 million production budget. Despite mixed reviews from critics, Lane received critical acclaim for her performance. |
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The movie begins with Connie making breakfast while Ed gets ready for work and their eight-year old son Charlie gets ready for school. She says to them that she is going to [[Manhattan]] to do some shopping for an auction she is planning. |
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At the [[7th Golden Satellite Awards|7th Satellite Awards]], Lane won for [[Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture|Best Actress in a Motion Picture]], and was nominated for the [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role]] at the [[9th Screen Actors Guild Awards]], the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama]] at the [[60th Golden Globe Awards]], and the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] at the [[75th Academy Awards]], respectively. |
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Connie then takes the train into Manhattan's Grand Central Station, but has difficulty trying to walk through the area in a windstorm. As she chases after taxis, she bumps into a stranger ([[Olivier Martinez]]). They both fall but Connie scraps her knee. |
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A Hindi [[Murder (2004 film)|remake]] was released in 2004 |
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The stranger offers to take Connie to his apartment to clean off the scrap. At that moment, an empty cab goes by, but she decides to take the stranger up on his offer, instead of heading back to the train station. |
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==Plot== |
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He introduces himself as Paul Martel, a Frenchman who buys and sells used books. He offers her tea and she calls home to check on her son. While she is talking to her son, Paul moves up silently behind her and places ice on her knee. She gasps, but he moves away before she realizes why she gasped. |
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Edward and Connie Sumner live in upscale [[Westchester County, New York]] with their 8-year-old son, Charlie. While shopping in [[SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]], the wind knocks Connie into a man named Paul Martel, and they fall over. At his apartment, Paul cleans and ices her leg, then puts his hand on hers. Connie gives him her first name only. Paul insists that Connie take a book before she leaves, pointing out a passage about seizing the moment. His number is inside the book. |
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Connie later calls him from [[Grand Central Terminal]]. Paul invites her over, and they flirt again. On her third visit, they dance and have sex. Connie keeps finding excuses to continue visiting Paul. Edward becomes suspicious when he notices Connie's satin lingerie and catches her in a lie. |
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Connie decides that she feels uncomfortable and tells Paul that she needs to go home. He lets her go but gives her a book of poetry as a gift. Later that night, Connie tells her husband about the incident but does not elaborate on her visit to Paul's apartment. |
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Edward fires an employee for perceived disloyalty. The employee, who saw Connie and Paul together, tells Edward to look at his own family. Edward hires a private investigator and is devastated to see photos confirming the affair. |
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The next morning, after Edward and Charlie leave, she picks up the poetry book from Paul. His business card falls out. She then takes the train into Manhattan again and calls him from Grand Central. He invites her over for coffee. |
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One day, Connie forgets to pick up Charlie from school and realises her guilt. She decides to end her affair with Paul. After doing a grocery shopping errand, she drives over to Paul's home to tell him the news in person but spots him with another woman. She confronts him, and they later have an argument. She questions him about the number of women he is seeing. At this moment Paul seems to not care about Connie’s frustration and arrogantly contradicts himself. Paul claims the other woman is only a friend and also claims she means nothing to him. However, Connie sees through the lie. She furiously mentions that their affair is over and tells him she hates him. Connie then angrily storms out of his apartment, but Paul unexpectedly catches up and forces himself on her. She tries to fight him off and pleads with him to stop. However, realising she is still attracted to Paul, Connie forgives him. She eventually surrenders herself to Paul and has erotic [[makeup sex]] with him in the hallway. |
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When Connie enters into Paul's apartment, he has soft music playing and asks her to dance. At first she is hesitant, decides that it is wrong, and then starts to leave the building. But when she has to come back into the apartment because she forgot her coat, Paul grabs her and kisses her. |
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Connie leaves, missing Edward. Paul lets Edward in, and Edward finds a snow globe he gave Connie. He fractures Paul's skull with it, killing him. While cleaning up the evidence, he overhears Connie's voice message ending the affair. Edward erases it and puts Paul's body in the trunk of his car before dumping it in a landfill. |
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[[New York Police Department|NYPD]] detectives find Connie's number at Paul's and visit the Sumners'. His estranged wife has reported him missing. Connie is surprised that Paul was married, and claims that she barely knew him. The cops return when Paul's body is found. |
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The detective comes back with pictures of Connie and Paul, which devastate Edward. He decides to go visit Paul. But when he arrives at the apartment building, he is unable to get in the front door so he walks back to the car. Just as he turns his back, he sees Connie come out of the building, get into her car and drive off. Edward then slips inside when someone else comes out of the apartment. |
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At the dry cleaner, Connie finds the photos of her and Paul in Edward's clothes. At a party that night, she finds the snow globe back in their collection. When she confronts Edward, he reveals that he knew all along about her infidelity. Edward breaks down while mentioning how hard he worked to give her and Charlie a better life. He then accuses her of being ungrateful and throwing away all of his hard work for an affair. Edward confesses that he wanted to kill her, not Paul. |
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Edward confronts Paul and gets angrier and angrier with him. When Edward spots a snow globe on Paul's window stil, he gets so irate that he uses the snow globe to attack Paul on the head. The last thing Paul sees is blood pouring down his face. |
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Days later, Connie discovers a hidden compartment in the snow globe, where years earlier, Edward placed a photograph of them and infant Charlie, with the message ″To My Beautiful Wife, the Best Part of Every Day!″ Realizing how much he loved her, she burns the incriminating photographs. Edward says that he will turn himself in, but she objects. They return to a normal life together. |
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Edward then starts to panic, but manages to clean up the blood, wipe off his fingerprints from everything he touched. He wraps Paul's dead body up in a Persian Rug and dumps him in his trunk. Just as he was about to leave, the phone rings. It is Connie who says on the answering machine that she needs to end the affair. Edward erases the message and leaves. That night, Edward leaves Paul's body at the dump. |
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Returning home one evening, Edward stops at a red light. Connie falls into an escape fantasy that they could leave the country and assume new identities, and Edward agrees it sounds perfect. Consoling her as she cries, it is revealed that Edward stopped next to a police station. |
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Later, two police detectives show up at the Sumner home. They say that Paul's wife had reported him missing, and they found Connie's phone number in his's apartment. Connie says that she only met him once. |
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==Cast== |
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A week later, the detectives come back and say that they found Paul's body at the dump. Connie becomes very upset but maintains that she only met him once. Edward also tells the police that he'd never met Paul before. |
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* [[Richard Gere]] as Edward Sumner |
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* [[Diane Lane]] as Constance "Connie" Sumner |
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* [[Olivier Martinez]] as Paul Martel |
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* [[Erik Per Sullivan]] as Charlie Sumner |
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* [[Chad Lowe]] as Bill Stone |
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* [[Dominic Chianese]] as Frank Wilson |
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* [[Erich Anderson]] as Bob Gaylord |
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* [[Myra Lucretia Taylor]] as Gloria |
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* [[Michelle Monaghan]] as Lindsay |
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* [[Kate Burton (actress)|Kate Burton]] as Tracy |
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* [[Margaret Colin]] as Sally |
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* [[Željko Ivanek]] as Detective Dean |
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* [[Gary Basaraba]] as Detective Mirojnick |
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* [[Lisa Emery]] as Beth |
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* [[Michael Emerson]] as Josh |
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* [[Damon Gupton]] as Other Businessman |
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* [[Joseph Badalucco Jr.]] as Train Conductor |
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==Production== |
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Later that night when Connie drops off Edward's clothes to the dry cleaners, she finds the photos of her and Paul and realizes that Edward must have had something to do with Paul's death. Her suspicions are confirmed when she sees that snow globe that she gave Paul back at her home. |
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===Development=== |
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According to actor Richard Gere, an early draft of the screenplay presented the Sumners as suffering from a dysfunctional sexual relationship, which gave Connie some justification for having an affair. According to Gere and to director Adrian Lyne, the studio wanted to change the storyline so that the Sumners had a bad marriage with no sex, to create greater sympathy for Connie. Both men opposed the change; Lyne in particular felt that the studio's suggestions would have robbed the film of any drama: "I wanted two people who were perfectly happy. I loved the idea of the totally arbitrary nature of infidelity." The Sumners' relationship was rewritten as a good marriage, with her affair the result of a chance meeting.<ref name= "kobel">{{cite news | title = Smoke to Go With the Steam | first = Peter | last = Kobel | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/movies/film-smoke-to-go-with-the-steam.html | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = May 5, 2002 | access-date = June 19, 2008 }}</ref> |
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===Pre-production=== |
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Edward and Connie confront each other about what each had done. They burn the photographs and Edward offers to turn himself in. Connie replies that he shouldn't and they would get through it together. Connie then picks up the snow globe and the bottom of the globe comes loose. Inside is a note from Edward saying that she is the best part of everyday (which explains why Edward became irate when he saw it in Paul's apartment). |
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During pre-production, the producers received a videotaped audition from Olivier Martinez, who was selected for Paul. His character was portrayed as French once Martinez was cast. Lyne said, "I think it helps one understand how Connie might have leapt into this affair—he's very beguiling, doing even ordinary things." Once cast in the role, Martinez, with Lyne's approval, changed some of his dialogue and the scene in which he first seduces Lane's character, while she is looking at a book in Braille. According to Martinez, "The story that was invented before was much more sensual, erotic and clear."<ref name= "topel">{{cite news | title = Olivier Martinez Interview – ''Unfaithful'' | first = Fred | last = Topel | url = http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa050102c.htm | work = About.com: Hollywood Movies | year = 2002 | access-date = August 24, 2007 }}</ref> |
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[[George Clooney]] turned down his role in order to star in ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://variety.com/2000/film/news/clooney-may-be-unfaithful-1117782038|title=Clooney may be 'Unfaithful'|work=Variety|date=May 21, 2000|access-date=March 16, 2015}}</ref> Lyne cast Diane Lane as Connie after seeing her in ''[[A Walk on the Moon]]''.<ref name= "kobel"/> He felt that the actress "breathes a certain sexuality. But she's sympathetic, and I think so many sexy women tend to be tough and hard at the same time."<ref name= "wolk">{{cite magazine | title = Meet Unfaithful's Diane Lane | first = Josh | last = Wolk | url = http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,238385~1~0~,00.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121216055937/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,238385~1~0~,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = December 16, 2012 | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | year = 2002 | access-date = August 24, 2007 }}</ref> Lyne also wanted Gere and Lane to gain weight in order to portray the comfort of a middle-age couple. In particular, he wanted Gere to gain 30 pounds and left donuts in the actor's trailer every morning.<ref name = "whipp">{{cite news | title = Uncovered | first = Glenn | last = Whipp | work = [[Los Angeles Times]] | date = May 10, 2002 }}</ref> |
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Later, Edward and Connie are in their car stopped at an intersection, talking about what they should do next. They discuss whether they sell their house and business, move to a new location and change their names, starting life over again, or should Edward turn himself in to the police. As this conversation goes on for a long time, the stop light changes many times from red to green and back again, casting red and green light on their faces. Finally, the camera pulls back to reveal that their car is stopped near a police station, and the movie ends before the audience ever hears their final decision. |
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Lyne asked director of photography Peter Biziou, with whom he made ''[[9½ Weeks]]'', to shoot ''Unfaithful''. After reading the script, Biziou felt that the story was appropriate for the classic 1.85:1 aspect ratio because it "so often has two characters working together in the frame". During pre-production, Biziou, Lyne and production designer [[Brian Morris (art director)|Brian Morris]] used a collection of still photographs as style references. These included photos from fashion magazines and shots by prominent photographers.<ref name = "martin">{{cite news | title = Broken Vows | first = Kevin H | last = Martin | work = American Cinematographer | date = June 2002 }}</ref> |
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==Cast includes== |
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* [[Diane Lane]] - Constance 'Connie'/'Con' Sumner |
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* [[Erik Per Sullivan]] - Charlie Sumner |
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* [[Richard Gere]] - Edward 'Ed' Sumner |
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* [[Olivier Martinez]] - Paul Martel |
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* [[Myra Lucretia Taylor]] - Gloria |
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* [[Michelle Monaghan]] - Lindsay |
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* [[Chad Lowe]] - Bill Stone |
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* [[Joseph Badalucco Jr.]] - Train conductor |
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* [[Erich Anderson]] - Bob Gaylord |
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* [[Damon Gupton]] - Other businessman |
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* [[Kate Burton]] - Tracy |
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* [[Margaret Colin]] - Sally |
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* [[Marc Forget]] - Café bartender |
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* [[Larry Gleason]] - Tim |
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* [[Dominic Chianese]] - Frank Wilson |
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===Filming=== |
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Initially, the story was set against snowy exteriors, but this idea was rejected early on. Principal photography began in New York City on March 22, 2001 and wrapped on June 1, 2001 with Lyne shooting in continuity whenever possible. During the windstorm sequence where Connie first meets Paul, it rained and Lyne used the overcast weather conditions for the street scenes. The director also preferred shooting practical interiors on location so that the actors could "feel an intimate sense of belonging", Biziou recalls. The cinematographer also used natural light as much as possible.<ref name= "martin" /> |
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The movie was nominated for more than 10 awards, including the 2002 [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] (Lane), a [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]] for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (Lane), and Best Sound Editing in a Feature. |
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At times, Lyne's directing took its toll on the cast and crew. In a scene taking place in an office, the director pumped it full of smoke, an effect that "makes the colors less contrasty, more muted".<ref name = "kobel" /> According to Biziou, "The texture it gives helps differentiate and separate various density levels of darkness farther back in frame".<ref name = "martin" /> The smoke was piped in for 18 to 20 hours a day and Gere remembers, "Our throats were being blown out. We had a special doctor who was there almost all the time who was shooting people up with [[Antibacterial|antibiotics]] for [[Bronchus|bronchial]] infections". Lane acquired an oxygen bottle in order to survive the rigorous schedule.<ref name = "kobel" /> |
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The film has many explicit sex scenes, including a tryst in a restaurant bathroom and a passionate exchange in an apartment building hallway. Lyne's repeated takes for these scenes were demanding for the actors, especially for Lane, who had to be emotionally and physically fit for the scenes.<ref name = "kobel" /> To prepare for the initial love scene between Paul and Constance, Lyne had the actors watch clips from ''[[Fatal Attraction]]'', ''[[Five Easy Pieces]]'', and ''[[Last Tango in Paris]]''.<ref name = "whipp" /> Lane and Martinez would also talk over the scenes in his trailer beforehand. Once on the set, they felt uncomfortable until several takes in. She said, "My comfort level with it just had to catch up quickly if I wanted to be the actress to play it."<ref name = "murray">{{cite news | title = Diane Lane Interview – ''Unfaithful'' | first = Rebecca | last = Murray | url = http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa050102b.htm | work = About.com: Hollywood Movies | year = 2002 | access-date = August 24, 2007 }}</ref> Martinez was not comfortable with nudity. Lane said that Lyne would often shoot a whole magazine of film, "so one take was as long as five takes. By the end, you're physically and emotionally shattered."<ref name = "bhattacharya">{{cite news | title = Memory Lane | first = Sanjiv | last = Bhattacharya | url = http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,722253,00.html | work = [[The Guardian]] | date = May 26, 2002 | access-date = August 24, 2007 }}</ref> |
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Lane had not met Martinez before filming, and they did not get to know each other well during the shoot, mirroring the relationship between their characters.<ref name = "iley">{{cite news | title = Always In and Out of Passion | first = Chrissy | last = Iley | work = [[The Times]] | date = June 10, 2002 }}</ref> A full four weeks of the schedule was dedicated to the scenes in Paul's loft, which was located on the third floor of a six-story building located on Greene Street. Biziou often used two cameras for the film's intimate scenes to reduce the number of takes that had to be shot.<ref name= "martin"/> |
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===Post-production=== |
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Lyne shot five different endings to ''Unfaithful'' based on his experiences with ''Fatal Attraction'', whose initial ending was rejected by the test audience.<ref name = "whipp" /> According to Lyne, he had some debate with the [[20th Century Fox]] officials, who wanted to "make the marriage gray, the sex bad. I fought that. I tried to explore the guilt, the jealousy—that's what I'm interested in."<ref name = "wloszczyna">{{cite news | title = Director Adrian Lyne, faithful to sexual themes | first = Susan | last = Wloszczyna | url = https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/2002/2002-05-09-lyne.htm | work = [[USA Today]] | date = May 9, 2002 }}</ref> The studio did not like the film's "enigmatic" ending, which they felt failed to punish crimes committed by the characters. It imposed a "particularly jarring 'Hollywood' final line", which angered Gere. |
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Following negative reactions from test audiences, the studio reinstated the original ending;<ref name= "bhattacharya"/> a few weeks before the film was to open in theaters, Lyne asked Gere and Lane to return to Los Angeles for reshoots of the ending.<ref name= "kobel"/> Lyne claimed that the new ending was more ambiguous than the original and was the original one by screenwriter Alvin Sargent. Lyne also thought the new ending "would be more interesting and provoke more discussion",<ref name = "LaTimes">{{cite news | title = Director Tweaks ''Unfaithful'' Ending | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-06-et-1know6-story.html | work = [[Los Angeles Times]] | date = May 6, 2002 | access-date = June 10, 2010 }}</ref> saying he intentionally "wanted to do a more ambiguous ending, which treats the audience much more intelligently".<ref name = "USAToday">{{cite news | title = Talk Today: Interact with people in the news | url = http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20020506005/tscript.htm | work = [[USA Today]] | date = May 3, 2002 | access-date = November 18, 2015 }}</ref> |
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==Reception== |
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===Box office=== |
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''Unfaithful'' was released in 2,617 theaters in the United States on May 10, 2002, grossing [[United States dollar|US$]]14 million on its first weekend, with an average of $5,374 per screen, ranking in second place behind ''[[Spider-Man (2002 film)|Spider-Man]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Brandon |date=May 12, 2002 |title='Spider-Man' Nets More Records with $71.4 Million Second Weekend |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=1164&p=.htm |access-date=April 5, 2017 |website=Box Office Mojo |archive-date=February 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206215216/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=1164&p=.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> It made $52 million in the U.S. and Canada, and a total of $119 million worldwide, well above its $50 million budget.<ref name = "boxoffice">{{cite web | url = http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=unfaithful.htm | title = ''Unfaithful'' | website = [[Box Office Mojo]] | access-date = August 24, 2007 }}</ref> |
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===Critical response=== |
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On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a rating of 50% based on 165 reviews, with an average rating of 5.80/10. The consensus reads, "Diane Lane shines in the role, but the movie adds nothing new to the genre and the resolution is unsatisfying."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/unfaithful |title=Unfaithful (2002) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]] |access-date=February 22, 2022 }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on reviews from 34 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/unfaithful |title = Unfaithful Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] }}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade "C+" on scale of A to F.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 12, 2002 |first=Brandon |last=Gray |title='Spider-Man' Nets More Records with $71.4 Million Second Weekend |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed1802765316/ |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |quote=moviegoers polled by CinemaScore on opening night gave Unfaithful a C+, suggesting that it may suffer from poor word-of-mouth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= UNFAITHFUL (2002) C+ |work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}</ref> |
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[[CNN]] film critic Paul Tatara wrote, "The audience when I saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times, and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack."<ref>{{cite news | title = Sexually charged ''Unfaithful'' falls flat | first = Paul | last = Tatara | url = http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/09/review.unfaithful/index.html | work = [[CNN]] | date = May 9, 2002 | access-date = August 24, 2007 }}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' critic [[Owen Gleiberman]] awarded the film an "A−" grade and praised Lane for delivering "the most urgent performance of her career", writing that she "is a revelation. The play of lust, romance, degradation, and guilt on her face is the movie's real story."<ref>{{cite magazine | title = ''Unfaithful'' | first = Owen | last = Gleiberman |author-link=Owen Gleiberman | url = https://ew.com/article/2002/05/08/unfaithful-2/ | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = May 17, 2002 | access-date = March 22, 2022 }}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' wrote, "Instead of pumping up the plot with recycled manufactured thrills, it's content to contemplate two reasonably sane adults who get themselves into an almost insoluble dilemma."<ref>{{cite news | title = ''Unfaithful'' | first = Roger | last = Ebert | work = [[Chicago Sun-Times]] | url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/unfaithful-2002 | date = May 10, 2002 | access-date = October 3, 2007 }}</ref> [[Kenneth Turan]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote, "The only performer who manages to get inside her character is Lane. Whether it's her initial half-distrustful tentativeness, her later sensual abandon or her never-ending ambivalence, Lane's Constance seems to be actually living the role in a way no one else matches, a way we can all connect to."<ref>{{cite news |title=''Unfaithful'' |first=Kenneth |last=Turan |author-link=Kenneth Turan |url=http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie000032467may08,0,3886120.story |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 8, 2002 |access-date=January 22, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006172335/http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie000032467may08,0,3886120.story |archive-date=October 6, 2008 }} <!-- As of 2022, live version was available at https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-08-et-turan8-story.html --></ref> |
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Stephen Holden in ''[[The New York Times]]'' praised the "taut, economical screenplay" that "digs into its characters' marrow (and into the perfectly selected details of domestic life) without wasting a word. That screenplay helps to ground a film whose visual imagination hovers somewhere between soap opera and a portentous pop surrealism."<ref>{{cite news | title = Day in Town Takes an Unexpected Tryst | first = Stephen | last = Holden | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E0D81430F93BA35756C0A9649C8B63 | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = May 8, 2002 | access-date = January 22, 2022 }}</ref> ''[[USA Today]]'' gave the film three-and-a-half out of four and Mike Clark wrote, "Diane Lane also reaches a new career plateau with her best performance since 1979's ''[[A Little Romance]]''."<ref>{{cite news | title = ''Unfaithful'' turns torrid affair scary | first = Mike | last = Clark | url = https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/2002/2002-05-08-unfaithful-review.htm | work = [[USA Today]] | date = May 11, 2002 | access-date = January 22, 2009 }}</ref> In his review for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Stephen Hunter wrote, "In the end, ''Unfaithful'' leaves you dispirited and grumpy: All that money spent, all that talent wasted, all that time gone forever, and for what? It's an ill movie that bloweth no man to good."<ref>{{cite news | title = ''Unfaithful'': Unfathomable Attraction | first = Stephen | last = Hunter | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/05/10/unfaithful-unfathomable-attraction/c1b2aeac-1393-44d5-9848-01917a081c1f/ | newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] | date = May 10, 2002 | access-date = January 22, 2022 }}</ref> [[David Ansen]], in his review for ''[[Newsweek]]'', wrote, "''Unfaithful'' shows what a powerful, sexy, smart filmmaker Lyne can be. It's a shame he substitutes the mechanics of suspense for the real suspense of what goes on between a man and a woman, a husband and a wife."<ref>{{cite news | title = Lust And Consequences | first = David | last = Ansen | url = http://www.newsweek.com/id/64509 | work = [[Newsweek]] | date = May 13, 2002 | access-date = March 22, 2022 }}</ref> [[Andrew Sarris]], in his review for the ''[[New York Observer]]'', wrote, "Ultimately ''Unfaithful'' is escapism in its purest form, and I am willing to experience it on that level, even though with all the unalloyed joy on display, there's almost no humor," and concluded that it was "one of the very few mainstream movies currently directed exclusively to grown-ups".<ref>{{cite news | title = Diane Lane Stumbles, Smolders-Richard Gere Plays the Square | first = Andrew | last = Sarris | url = http://www.observer.com/node/45983 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080624232049/http://www.observer.com/node/45983 | url-status = dead | archive-date = June 24, 2008 | work = [[The New York Observer]] | date = May 12, 2002 | access-date = March 20, 2009 }}</ref> |
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The studio campaign's theme consisted of what the studio called the film's "iconic scene": Constance recalling her first tryst with Paul as she takes a train home. According to Tom Rothman, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, "That scene captured the power of her performance. It's what everyone talked about after they saw her." Four days before the [[New York Film Critics]] Circle's vote, Lane was given a career tribute by the Film Society of [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts|Lincoln Center]]. A day before that, Lyne held a dinner for the actress at the [[Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts|Four Seasons Hotel]]. Critics and award voters were invited to both.<ref name = "bowles">{{cite news | title = Studio keeps ''Unfaithful'' out in open | first = Scott | last = Bowles | url = https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2003-01-15-unfaithful_x.htm?loc=interstitialskip | work = [[USA Today]] | date = January 15, 2003 | access-date = August 24, 2007 }}</ref> Lane won the [[National Society of Film Critics]], the New York Film Critics Circle awards and was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]] and an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]], losing the latter to [[Nicole Kidman]] in ''[[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110531042/winners-big-upsets/ |title=Winners: Big upsets |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003210924/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110531042/winners-big-upsets/ |date=March 24, 2003 |access-date=October 3, 2022 |archive-date=October 3, 2022 |page=21 |publisher=[[Detroit Free Press]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked ''Unfaithful'' the 27th on their "50 Sexiest Movies Ever" list.<ref>{{cite web |title=50 Sexiest Movies Ever: Nos. 50-26 |url=http://ew.com/gallery/50-sexiest-movies-ever-nos-50-26/ |website=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=March 6, 2018 }}</ref> |
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Unfaithful | |
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Directed by | Adrian Lyne |
Screenplay by | |
Based on | The Unfaithful Wife by Claude Chabrol |
Produced by |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | Peter Biziou |
Edited by | Anne V. Coates |
Music by | Jan A. P. Kaczmarek |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $50 million[1] |
Box office | $119.1 million |
Unfaithful is a 2002 American erotic thriller film directed and produced by Adrian Lyne and written by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr., adapted from the Claude Chabrol film The Unfaithful Wife (1969). Starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, and Erik Per Sullivan, the film follows Edward (Gere) and Connie Sumner (Lane), a couple living in the suburbs of New York City whose marriage is jeopardized when the wife has an affair with a stranger (Martinez) she encounters by chance.
Unfaithful was theatrically released in the United States on May 10, 2002, and was screened at the 37th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on July 8, 2002. The film was a box office success, grossing $119.1 million against its $50 million production budget. Despite mixed reviews from critics, Lane received critical acclaim for her performance.
At the 7th Satellite Awards, Lane won for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role at the 9th Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama at the 60th Golden Globe Awards, and the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 75th Academy Awards, respectively.
A Hindi remake was released in 2004
Plot
[edit]Edward and Connie Sumner live in upscale Westchester County, New York with their 8-year-old son, Charlie. While shopping in SoHo, the wind knocks Connie into a man named Paul Martel, and they fall over. At his apartment, Paul cleans and ices her leg, then puts his hand on hers. Connie gives him her first name only. Paul insists that Connie take a book before she leaves, pointing out a passage about seizing the moment. His number is inside the book.
Connie later calls him from Grand Central Terminal. Paul invites her over, and they flirt again. On her third visit, they dance and have sex. Connie keeps finding excuses to continue visiting Paul. Edward becomes suspicious when he notices Connie's satin lingerie and catches her in a lie.
Edward fires an employee for perceived disloyalty. The employee, who saw Connie and Paul together, tells Edward to look at his own family. Edward hires a private investigator and is devastated to see photos confirming the affair.
One day, Connie forgets to pick up Charlie from school and realises her guilt. She decides to end her affair with Paul. After doing a grocery shopping errand, she drives over to Paul's home to tell him the news in person but spots him with another woman. She confronts him, and they later have an argument. She questions him about the number of women he is seeing. At this moment Paul seems to not care about Connie’s frustration and arrogantly contradicts himself. Paul claims the other woman is only a friend and also claims she means nothing to him. However, Connie sees through the lie. She furiously mentions that their affair is over and tells him she hates him. Connie then angrily storms out of his apartment, but Paul unexpectedly catches up and forces himself on her. She tries to fight him off and pleads with him to stop. However, realising she is still attracted to Paul, Connie forgives him. She eventually surrenders herself to Paul and has erotic makeup sex with him in the hallway.
Connie leaves, missing Edward. Paul lets Edward in, and Edward finds a snow globe he gave Connie. He fractures Paul's skull with it, killing him. While cleaning up the evidence, he overhears Connie's voice message ending the affair. Edward erases it and puts Paul's body in the trunk of his car before dumping it in a landfill.
NYPD detectives find Connie's number at Paul's and visit the Sumners'. His estranged wife has reported him missing. Connie is surprised that Paul was married, and claims that she barely knew him. The cops return when Paul's body is found.
At the dry cleaner, Connie finds the photos of her and Paul in Edward's clothes. At a party that night, she finds the snow globe back in their collection. When she confronts Edward, he reveals that he knew all along about her infidelity. Edward breaks down while mentioning how hard he worked to give her and Charlie a better life. He then accuses her of being ungrateful and throwing away all of his hard work for an affair. Edward confesses that he wanted to kill her, not Paul.
Days later, Connie discovers a hidden compartment in the snow globe, where years earlier, Edward placed a photograph of them and infant Charlie, with the message ″To My Beautiful Wife, the Best Part of Every Day!″ Realizing how much he loved her, she burns the incriminating photographs. Edward says that he will turn himself in, but she objects. They return to a normal life together.
Returning home one evening, Edward stops at a red light. Connie falls into an escape fantasy that they could leave the country and assume new identities, and Edward agrees it sounds perfect. Consoling her as she cries, it is revealed that Edward stopped next to a police station.
Cast
[edit]- Richard Gere as Edward Sumner
- Diane Lane as Constance "Connie" Sumner
- Olivier Martinez as Paul Martel
- Erik Per Sullivan as Charlie Sumner
- Chad Lowe as Bill Stone
- Dominic Chianese as Frank Wilson
- Erich Anderson as Bob Gaylord
- Myra Lucretia Taylor as Gloria
- Michelle Monaghan as Lindsay
- Kate Burton as Tracy
- Margaret Colin as Sally
- Željko Ivanek as Detective Dean
- Gary Basaraba as Detective Mirojnick
- Lisa Emery as Beth
- Michael Emerson as Josh
- Damon Gupton as Other Businessman
- Joseph Badalucco Jr. as Train Conductor
Production
[edit]Development
[edit]According to actor Richard Gere, an early draft of the screenplay presented the Sumners as suffering from a dysfunctional sexual relationship, which gave Connie some justification for having an affair. According to Gere and to director Adrian Lyne, the studio wanted to change the storyline so that the Sumners had a bad marriage with no sex, to create greater sympathy for Connie. Both men opposed the change; Lyne in particular felt that the studio's suggestions would have robbed the film of any drama: "I wanted two people who were perfectly happy. I loved the idea of the totally arbitrary nature of infidelity." The Sumners' relationship was rewritten as a good marriage, with her affair the result of a chance meeting.[2]
Pre-production
[edit]During pre-production, the producers received a videotaped audition from Olivier Martinez, who was selected for Paul. His character was portrayed as French once Martinez was cast. Lyne said, "I think it helps one understand how Connie might have leapt into this affair—he's very beguiling, doing even ordinary things." Once cast in the role, Martinez, with Lyne's approval, changed some of his dialogue and the scene in which he first seduces Lane's character, while she is looking at a book in Braille. According to Martinez, "The story that was invented before was much more sensual, erotic and clear."[3]
George Clooney turned down his role in order to star in Ocean's Eleven.[4] Lyne cast Diane Lane as Connie after seeing her in A Walk on the Moon.[2] He felt that the actress "breathes a certain sexuality. But she's sympathetic, and I think so many sexy women tend to be tough and hard at the same time."[5] Lyne also wanted Gere and Lane to gain weight in order to portray the comfort of a middle-age couple. In particular, he wanted Gere to gain 30 pounds and left donuts in the actor's trailer every morning.[6]
Lyne asked director of photography Peter Biziou, with whom he made 9½ Weeks, to shoot Unfaithful. After reading the script, Biziou felt that the story was appropriate for the classic 1.85:1 aspect ratio because it "so often has two characters working together in the frame". During pre-production, Biziou, Lyne and production designer Brian Morris used a collection of still photographs as style references. These included photos from fashion magazines and shots by prominent photographers.[7]
Filming
[edit]Initially, the story was set against snowy exteriors, but this idea was rejected early on. Principal photography began in New York City on March 22, 2001 and wrapped on June 1, 2001 with Lyne shooting in continuity whenever possible. During the windstorm sequence where Connie first meets Paul, it rained and Lyne used the overcast weather conditions for the street scenes. The director also preferred shooting practical interiors on location so that the actors could "feel an intimate sense of belonging", Biziou recalls. The cinematographer also used natural light as much as possible.[7]
At times, Lyne's directing took its toll on the cast and crew. In a scene taking place in an office, the director pumped it full of smoke, an effect that "makes the colors less contrasty, more muted".[2] According to Biziou, "The texture it gives helps differentiate and separate various density levels of darkness farther back in frame".[7] The smoke was piped in for 18 to 20 hours a day and Gere remembers, "Our throats were being blown out. We had a special doctor who was there almost all the time who was shooting people up with antibiotics for bronchial infections". Lane acquired an oxygen bottle in order to survive the rigorous schedule.[2]
The film has many explicit sex scenes, including a tryst in a restaurant bathroom and a passionate exchange in an apartment building hallway. Lyne's repeated takes for these scenes were demanding for the actors, especially for Lane, who had to be emotionally and physically fit for the scenes.[2] To prepare for the initial love scene between Paul and Constance, Lyne had the actors watch clips from Fatal Attraction, Five Easy Pieces, and Last Tango in Paris.[6] Lane and Martinez would also talk over the scenes in his trailer beforehand. Once on the set, they felt uncomfortable until several takes in. She said, "My comfort level with it just had to catch up quickly if I wanted to be the actress to play it."[8] Martinez was not comfortable with nudity. Lane said that Lyne would often shoot a whole magazine of film, "so one take was as long as five takes. By the end, you're physically and emotionally shattered."[9]
Lane had not met Martinez before filming, and they did not get to know each other well during the shoot, mirroring the relationship between their characters.[10] A full four weeks of the schedule was dedicated to the scenes in Paul's loft, which was located on the third floor of a six-story building located on Greene Street. Biziou often used two cameras for the film's intimate scenes to reduce the number of takes that had to be shot.[7]
Post-production
[edit]Lyne shot five different endings to Unfaithful based on his experiences with Fatal Attraction, whose initial ending was rejected by the test audience.[6] According to Lyne, he had some debate with the 20th Century Fox officials, who wanted to "make the marriage gray, the sex bad. I fought that. I tried to explore the guilt, the jealousy—that's what I'm interested in."[11] The studio did not like the film's "enigmatic" ending, which they felt failed to punish crimes committed by the characters. It imposed a "particularly jarring 'Hollywood' final line", which angered Gere.
Following negative reactions from test audiences, the studio reinstated the original ending;[9] a few weeks before the film was to open in theaters, Lyne asked Gere and Lane to return to Los Angeles for reshoots of the ending.[2] Lyne claimed that the new ending was more ambiguous than the original and was the original one by screenwriter Alvin Sargent. Lyne also thought the new ending "would be more interesting and provoke more discussion",[12] saying he intentionally "wanted to do a more ambiguous ending, which treats the audience much more intelligently".[13]
Reception
[edit]Box office
[edit]Unfaithful was released in 2,617 theaters in the United States on May 10, 2002, grossing US$14 million on its first weekend, with an average of $5,374 per screen, ranking in second place behind Spider-Man.[14] It made $52 million in the U.S. and Canada, and a total of $119 million worldwide, well above its $50 million budget.[15]
Critical response
[edit]On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 50% based on 165 reviews, with an average rating of 5.80/10. The consensus reads, "Diane Lane shines in the role, but the movie adds nothing new to the genre and the resolution is unsatisfying."[16] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on reviews from 34 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[17] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C+" on scale of A to F.[18][19]
CNN film critic Paul Tatara wrote, "The audience when I saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times, and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack."[20] Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman awarded the film an "A−" grade and praised Lane for delivering "the most urgent performance of her career", writing that she "is a revelation. The play of lust, romance, degradation, and guilt on her face is the movie's real story."[21] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "Instead of pumping up the plot with recycled manufactured thrills, it's content to contemplate two reasonably sane adults who get themselves into an almost insoluble dilemma."[22] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "The only performer who manages to get inside her character is Lane. Whether it's her initial half-distrustful tentativeness, her later sensual abandon or her never-ending ambivalence, Lane's Constance seems to be actually living the role in a way no one else matches, a way we can all connect to."[23]
Stephen Holden in The New York Times praised the "taut, economical screenplay" that "digs into its characters' marrow (and into the perfectly selected details of domestic life) without wasting a word. That screenplay helps to ground a film whose visual imagination hovers somewhere between soap opera and a portentous pop surrealism."[24] USA Today gave the film three-and-a-half out of four and Mike Clark wrote, "Diane Lane also reaches a new career plateau with her best performance since 1979's A Little Romance."[25] In his review for The Washington Post, Stephen Hunter wrote, "In the end, Unfaithful leaves you dispirited and grumpy: All that money spent, all that talent wasted, all that time gone forever, and for what? It's an ill movie that bloweth no man to good."[26] David Ansen, in his review for Newsweek, wrote, "Unfaithful shows what a powerful, sexy, smart filmmaker Lyne can be. It's a shame he substitutes the mechanics of suspense for the real suspense of what goes on between a man and a woman, a husband and a wife."[27] Andrew Sarris, in his review for the New York Observer, wrote, "Ultimately Unfaithful is escapism in its purest form, and I am willing to experience it on that level, even though with all the unalloyed joy on display, there's almost no humor," and concluded that it was "one of the very few mainstream movies currently directed exclusively to grown-ups".[28]
Accolades
[edit]The studio campaign's theme consisted of what the studio called the film's "iconic scene": Constance recalling her first tryst with Paul as she takes a train home. According to Tom Rothman, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, "That scene captured the power of her performance. It's what everyone talked about after they saw her." Four days before the New York Film Critics Circle's vote, Lane was given a career tribute by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. A day before that, Lyne held a dinner for the actress at the Four Seasons Hotel. Critics and award voters were invited to both.[29] Lane won the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress, losing the latter to Nicole Kidman in The Hours.[30] Entertainment Weekly ranked Unfaithful the 27th on their "50 Sexiest Movies Ever" list.[31]
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- ^ Topel, Fred (2002). "Olivier Martinez Interview – Unfaithful". About.com: Hollywood Movies. Retrieved August 24, 2007.
- ^ "Clooney may be 'Unfaithful'". Variety. May 21, 2000. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
- ^ Wolk, Josh (2002). "Meet Unfaithful's Diane Lane". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 16, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2007.
- ^ a b c Whipp, Glenn (May 10, 2002). "Uncovered". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ a b c d Martin, Kevin H (June 2002). "Broken Vows". American Cinematographer.
- ^ Murray, Rebecca (2002). "Diane Lane Interview – Unfaithful". About.com: Hollywood Movies. Retrieved August 24, 2007.
- ^ a b Bhattacharya, Sanjiv (May 26, 2002). "Memory Lane". The Guardian. Retrieved August 24, 2007.
- ^ Iley, Chrissy (June 10, 2002). "Always In and Out of Passion". The Times.
- ^ Wloszczyna, Susan (May 9, 2002). "Director Adrian Lyne, faithful to sexual themes". USA Today.
- ^ "Director Tweaks Unfaithful Ending". Los Angeles Times. May 6, 2002. Retrieved June 10, 2010.
- ^ "Talk Today: Interact with people in the news". USA Today. May 3, 2002. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
- ^ Gray, Brandon (May 12, 2002). "'Spider-Man' Nets More Records with $71.4 Million Second Weekend". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on February 6, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
- ^ "Unfaithful". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 24, 2007.
- ^ "Unfaithful (2002)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ^ "Unfaithful Reviews". Metacritic.
- ^ Gray, Brandon (May 12, 2002). "'Spider-Man' Nets More Records with $71.4 Million Second Weekend". Box Office Mojo.
moviegoers polled by CinemaScore on opening night gave Unfaithful a C+, suggesting that it may suffer from poor word-of-mouth.
- ^ "UNFAITHFUL (2002) C+". CinemaScore. Archived from the original on 2018-12-20.
- ^ Tatara, Paul (May 9, 2002). "Sexually charged Unfaithful falls flat". CNN. Retrieved August 24, 2007.
- ^ Gleiberman, Owen (May 17, 2002). "Unfaithful". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (May 10, 2002). "Unfaithful". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
- ^ Turan, Kenneth (May 8, 2002). "Unfaithful". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved January 22, 2009.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (May 8, 2002). "Day in Town Takes an Unexpected Tryst". The New York Times. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
- ^ Clark, Mike (May 11, 2002). "Unfaithful turns torrid affair scary". USA Today. Retrieved January 22, 2009.
- ^ Hunter, Stephen (May 10, 2002). "Unfaithful: Unfathomable Attraction". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
- ^ Ansen, David (May 13, 2002). "Lust And Consequences". Newsweek. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
- ^ Sarris, Andrew (May 12, 2002). "Diane Lane Stumbles, Smolders-Richard Gere Plays the Square". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on June 24, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
- ^ Bowles, Scott (January 15, 2003). "Studio keeps Unfaithful out in open". USA Today. Retrieved August 24, 2007.
- ^ "Winners: Big upsets". Detroit Free Press. March 24, 2003. p. 21. Archived from the original on October 3, 2022. Retrieved October 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "50 Sexiest Movies Ever: Nos. 50-26". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
External links
[edit]- Unfaithful at IMDb
- Unfaithful at the TCM Movie Database
- Unfaithful at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Unfaithful at Box Office Mojo
- 2002 films
- 2000s American films
- 2002 crime drama films
- 2002 crime thriller films
- 2000s English-language films
- 2000s erotic thriller films
- American crime drama films
- American crime thriller films
- American erotic romance films
- American erotic thriller films
- American remakes of French films
- Crime film remakes
- English-language crime drama films
- Films about adultery in the United States
- Films about infidelity
- Films directed by Adrian Lyne
- Films scored by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
- Films set in New York City
- Films shot in New Jersey
- Films shot in New York (state)
- Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent
- Regency Enterprises films
- 20th Century Fox films
- Thriller film remakes
- English-language crime thriller films
- English-language erotic thriller films