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An Affair of Love (Une Liaison D'Amour)
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780635920
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0780635922
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: September 11, 2001
Running Time: 80 minutes
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Review:
Nathalie Baye and Sergi López are lonely lovers who meet through an ad in a singles magazine for anonymous sex and fall in love. Frederic Fonteyne's tender portrait of a brief affair is framed in flashback: the two lovers recall their relationship for an unseen interviewer (a technique that recalls Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf and Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives), putting on a tough, scarred front that hides their regret. In the flashbacks, however, Fonteyne captures a sense of discomfort and anticipation in their first meeting that turns relaxed and passionate as their relationship deepens. Baye's nervous smiles become genuine and joyful as she grows more confident in López's company, and he nicely straddles the line between nonchalant openness and emotional defensiveness. Fonteyne's naturalistic style is broken only for the almost surreal vision of the hotel where they meet: they pass through a hellish crimson hall before entering their room, a cool blue sanctuary--a heaven on the other side of purgatory. It was released under a different name in France, an ironic title that translates to A Pornographic Affair, but the film is a sensitive, delicate portrait of fragile souls who allow self-doubts and second guesses get in the way of their own honesty. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A memo to all couples....talk
Can two people separate sex from the warmth of human interaction?
This wonderful movie maps the development of a relationship from an original plan for uninhibited and uncomplicated sexual encounters. Clearly both come to enjoy their interactions and their encounters, yet something still holds both back from the full spectrum of an intimate relationship - is it the shadow of the original intent; a fear of commitment; or the possibility of rejection.
This movie has a great ... Read More
Rating:  - They sure could have accumulated lots of Marriott Rewards Points!
Sex without love morphs into sex with love and then peters out into neither sex nor love. "An Affair of Love" reverses the usual chronology of attraction and affection leading to consummation. The protagonists immediately round home plate and then later experiment with touching first base, second and third. The pattern of anonymous sex in a regular private space sealed off from the world evoked to me a sense of "Last Tango in Paris," without the rough play.
Nathalie Bay and Sergei ... Read More
Rating: - Steams the Screen
This DVD rental was such a surprise delight. Frederic Fonteyne has directed "Gillie's Wife," but I've never focused on him as a director. The premise is fairly simple: a man and woman answer each other's personal ad. They meet strictly for sex. While I have only seen the U.S. DVD, it certainly is not "pornographic," as the French title might suggest. There is nearly no nudity in the film. The cinematic tension comes as Nathalie Baye and Sergi Lopez, who both won Best Actor awards at the Venice ... Read More
Rating: - Womans Film
This is a film made for women,but i must admit it almost had me in tears. it is so sensual, only the french can make films like this. no full on sex just a story about two people who meet,and how their relationship grows into love,that is not to be. i saw it on bbc four in england late one night under a french title,its subtitled , and that almost made me switch off, but i didnt,instead i bought the dvd, ladies if you want a good cry,this is for you.
E.W.Hunter
Rating:  - A Fascinating Experiment, Hobbled by Its Conventions and Artifices
This is certainly not my favorite film, but it was fascinating to watch and is worth seeing just for the astonishing Sergi Lopez, who is one of the sexiest men working in pictures today.
The film concerns a woman and a man who meet through a personals ad posted by the woman, in order to explore a long-desired kink of hers. The external world intrudes when a neighbor in the building where they meet suffers a medical crisis and together they accompany him to the hospital. As their regular ... Read More
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