esteban1747 Review of The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair (1999)

Fiennes again stealing the wife of the other

[7/10 · 28 June 2004]

Good drama with good acting of Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore. This time Fiennes is not the usual villain of the film but plays a role similar to the one he had in "The English Patient" (1996). In both the becomes a lover of a nice lady not very well cared by their husbands. The plot here has an additional ingredient, Maurice Bendrix (Fiennes) is asked by Henry Miles (Stephen Rea) to watch the behavior of the Miles wife, Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore) and to inform him whether she has any lover. The fact is that Bendrix does what he was asked to do for and became jealous since in the past he had some love relations with Sarah. At the end all three knew what happened but since Sarah was sick, they all decided to do the best for peaceful Sarah's death. This end perhaps is only possible in England, I cannot imagine such an end and agreement in any Latino country.