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Sebastian Crichton Topic: The End of the Affair Professor Grant In The End of the Affair Julianne Moore plays Sarah Miles, a married English woman who falls for saturnine novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) in wartime London, liberating herself sexually and emotionally while bombs fall and buildings crumble in the Blitz. This story is a tale of two lovers who see life in opposite ways, right down to the fervor they once shared. Bendrix narrates from the perspective of a jilted man: The movie begins two years after Sarah abruptly ended their affair. Bendrix runs into her boring but goodhearted husband, a high-level bureaucrat named Henry (Stephen Rea), who suspects her of seeing someone else. Henry doesn't think that Bendrix is cuckolding him and, of course, the novelist no longer is. But Bendrix, who gauges depth of love by the degree of jealousy it inspires, seizes the chance to turn the screw on his own obsession. He hires a private investigator to track Sarah's wanderings and tells the unconvinced agency director that he's doing it on the husband's behalf. The movie has elements of a mock-detective story, but midway through, when Bendrix finds what he's after, the explanation for his and Sarah's breakup; it evolves into a stirring fable of death and transfiguration. Director Jordan replays scenes that were filtered through Bendrix's longing and vengefulness this time with a spiritual dimension that is as unexpected and disorienting for the characters as it is for the audience.
Approximate Word count = 967
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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