The End of the Affair
The story opens on a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. What will happen with them?
4 February 1938, England, UK
31 October 1946, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
8 October 1964, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
11 November 1954, London, England, UK
26 March 1978, Surrey, England, UK
21 August 1985, London, England, UK
22 December 1962, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
13 October 1923, Highbury, London, England, UK
1947, Surrey, England, UK
16 June 1935, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
6 June 1963, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
March 27, 2003
Writer/director Neil Jordan takes the right approach to the material. Instead of trying to spruce it up, he simply moves in closer.
January 01, 2000
This is the kind of movie in which even the sex scenes are soulless.
January 01, 2000
Handsomely mounted, literate, emotionally sophisticated, The End of the Affair has everything a period romance should have.
January 07, 2003
Neil Jordan's film captures an unyielding sense, even almost to a fault, of romantic realism and its often underlying sadness.
November 19, 2005
The whole thing is beyond purple and yet so careful and reverent you can't even enjoy it as camp.
January 01, 2000
For all its obvious psychoanalytic implications, [Jordan's] wacky romantic triangle lost me long before it crawled to its spiritualist conclusion.
January 01, 2000
The characters are so unsympathetic, the adulterous love affair at the heart of the story so joyless, and the three main performances so mannered that it's hard to feel anything but disappointment and boredom.
December 06, 2004
What a sad and melancholy piece of work. ... Fiennes basically reprises his English Patient role as the heroic destroyer of covenants and promises.
May 08, 2002
Can anyone fail to recognize this as a fundamental betrayal of the author’s creative vision?
January 01, 2000
An effective love story that's intensely old-fashioned.
June 23, 2002
a demanding, thought-provoking film ...built around a theme many will find difficult to accept, that miracles can happen to perfectly ordinary, non-religious people.
January 01, 2000
Guaranteed to be mistaken for a first-rate picture.
