The story centers on a peaceful suburban family, consisting of bored working girl Connie Sumner (Diane Lane), her workaholic husband Edward (Richard Gere) and their 8-year-old son Charlie (Erik Sullivan). One day Connie gets caught in the middle of a violent windstorm, while walking around Manhattan. She, literally, bumps into a dashing French book collector, Paul Bartel (Olivier Martinez). The wind knocks her to the ground, causing her to scrape her knees. Paul offers her to come up to his apartment, so she can clean her wounds. You can pretty much guess what happens next.
The story is tight and engrossing, grabbing your interest and never letting go, but the actors also make it work. The characters are well-written, and the way the actors play them out is totally credible. Every character has both sympathetic and unsympathetic qualities, even Martinez's character. He could've easily been written as a lowlife scumbag with a pretty face. But even he isn't portrayed on a totally antagonistic level.
Diane Lane is a talented actress, who's beautiful to look at, and she gives her most powerful performance up-to-date. Though Richard Gere receives star billing, Lane carries the film. She wonderfully demonstrates every subtle nuance of her conflicted character. Even when she doesn't say a word, you know exactly how she's feeling. Her silent scenes are more powerful than her dialogue scenes. Newcomer Olivier Martinez is perfectly cast and wonderfully charismatic. I swear, even I felt charmed by his presence at times. He shows great potential as an up-and-coming actor, and can probably become the next Antonio Banderas. As for Richard Gere, I really hope this movie puts him back on the map. He also delivers a great, multi-faceted performance, and hopefully this movie will succeed at the box office and audiences will forget about all of Gere's recent throwaway roles.
I haven't seen any of Adrian Lyne's previous work, but I hear he's a prestigious director. And now I feel curious about checking out his earlier works. He creates a very interesting rhythm, vividly setting up the tone and atmosphere, all the way from the opening shot.
A well-written script, topnotch performances, fine professional direction--Can you ask for much more? "Unfaithful" is a thriller that thrills, a crowd-pleaser that pleases. I was glad to log onto the IMDB and see all good reviews. Sure, it doesn't look like much in the previews, but as it ironically turns out the movies that look crappy or none-too-appealing in the trailers turn out to be surprisingly good and the ones that look great in the trailers turn out to be very disappointing.
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