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Paul : We take Medicard Constance : I'm uninsured. Paul : I'm sorry, we don't take charity cases here. Paul : [laughing] It was a joke. Sign In. Unfaithful Showing all 16 items. Jump to: Photos 9 Quotes 7. Connie Sumner : We could end this now and nobody would get hurt Paul : I'd get hurt. Create a list ». So here is Unfaithful's ending explained.

During a chance encounter, Connie runs into Paul Martel and in a minor accident, she scrapes her knees.

Paul takes Connie to his apartment and tends to her wounds. He starts flirting with her but Connie ignores his advances. But when they bump into each other once again, their affair begins. When Connie realises that the affair is affecting her family she chooses to meet Paul one last time to end their affair. She sees Paul with another girl and breaks things up with him.

After hitting Paul with the snow globe, Edward cleans up all the evidence and leaves the apartment. Paul reveals that Connie gave it to him as a gift. Edward hits Paul with the snow globe, fracturing his skull and killing him. After wrapping Paul's body in a rug and cleaning up evidence of the murder and of his own presence in the apartment, Edward hears Connie leaving a message on Paul's answering machine, saying she must end the affair.

Edward erases all the messages and leaves, putting Paul's body in the trunk of his car. Edward joins his wife at Charlie's school play, and afterwards, dumps Paul's body at a landfill.

In the ensuing days, Paul's murder plagues Edward, who is unable to stop thinking about what he has done. When two police detectives arrive at the Sumner home, they explain to Connie that Paul's estranged wife had reported him missing, and that they had found Connie's phone number in his apartment.

Connie claims she only bought a book from him. A week later, the detectives return and tell Connie and Edward that they had found Paul's body. When police ask her how she first met Paul, she replies that she met Paul at a fundraiser. To Connie's surprise, Edward corroborates her story. Later that night, Connie finds Frank's photos of her and Paul, and realizes that Edward knows about the affair. After noticing that the snow globe has been returned to their home, Connie deduces that Edward murdered Paul.

Connie and Edward argue and, out of anger and frustration, Edward says that he wanted to kill her instead of Paul. In the days that follow, while looking at the underside of the snow globe, Connie discovers a hidden compartment containing a photograph of her, Edward, and an infant Charlie, with a loving anniversary message from Edward. As Connie is burning the photographs of her and Paul in the fireplace, Edward says he will turn himself in. Connie objects, saying they will find a way to move on.

The two then appear to go about living a normal life. One night, while driving, with Charlie sleeping in the backseat, Edward stops the car at an intersection. Connie whispers to Edward that they could leave the country and assume new identities, and Edward agrees to the idea. Connie then starts crying, and Edward consoles her. It is revealed that Edward has stopped his car near a police station, signifying the constant fear of retribution they will endure for the rest of their lives.

First off, I was quite surprised to see the cinema so full for this movie, even on opening weekend. I guess not that many movies for women in their 30's plus exist these days! I expected this movie, as I'm sure many people did, to be a Fatal Attraction but with the genders switched around. The summary of this movie is that Diane Lane's character starts cheating on her husband Richard Gere with a beautiful French man Olivier Martinez. Everything else should be left for surprise. The pacing of this movie is perfect.

We got a sense of Connie and Edward's home life before she met the dashing Paul. They have a darling son, Charlie, who adds alot of humor to the movie, but in a non precocious way. After the affair starts we see Connie's feelings range from excitement to complete disgust with herself.

And of course Edward inevitably finds out. His reaction is interesting, to say the least, and perhaps very honest. The acting is great, especially from Diane Lane. The sex scenes are pretty raunchy, and made me uncomfortable at certain points, but it's interesting to see how different sex with the lover and sex with the husband were.

At the end of this movie I didn't feel cheated or robbed with some contrived ending although others may argue differently. This film dealt with how being in an affair must feel, and how finding out you're being cheated on could make your react in uncharacteristic ways. I have read alot of reviews here that expressed displeasure for this film based on the notion that this was basically "softcore porn for housewives" and had nothing new to offer it's audience. Behind the obvious guise of a morality tale showing what can happen if you stray from your marital vows, there is a rather amazing piece of art to be seen.

This is what we in the Theater refer to as Drama As Art, meaning that the plot is less important than the impact that the various plot points have on the characters, creating more and more and more drama as the story unfolds.

And in this respect, 'Unfaithful' excells! Should she go home? One choice, one moment in time, a world of difference. And Drama does a fine job holding this otherwise middle-of-the-road film above the fray. Peter Pemberton peterpemberton1 yahoo. Whoever thought that director Adrian Lyne and star Richard Gere were finished needs to see this haunting and provocative film.

Because this is a stunner that will put both back on the map - big time. For all their star power though, it is the female star Diane Lane who must take huge credit for making this such an effective movie. I've always liked Lane as an actress from when she was a kid in Francis Ford Coppola films, but she rarely got the chance to 'carry' a film. Stunning acting. This is not an art-film, but it is not a blockbuster either. It lays somewhere between the two and delivers on all fronts.

I was totally glued to my seat from start to finish. Adrian Lyne is fascinated by human sexuality and he presents it in a way that is adult but without being pornographic. They look ideal: he is a very successful businessman, she is a wonderful and loving wife and mother to their young son, and they live in a beautiful home. She is injured and unable to get a taxi, Paul helps her and when he was unable to get her into a taxi he offers her to come upstairs to his apartment to use a telephone and bandage up her injury.

Connie is immediately attracted and fascinated by the handsome stranger, but nothing happens and she goes home but she cannot stop thinking about Paul. She goes back and finds him.

In the second encounter with Paul nothing happens but she still cannot stop thinking about him and it seems very obvious to Paul that he is also attracted to her. In the third encounter, Paul and Connie have sex and it is the beginning of a tumultuous affair that will set a chain reaction of guilt, jealousy, obsession, heartbreak, and murder. I love how Adrian Lyne very much like he did in Fatal Attraction adds the human drama of the family breaking apart because of an infidelity.

Connie was not looking for an affair and her relationship with Paul was the result of an accident. After another encounter with her lover she is late to pick up her son from school who is waiting for her on the steps of the school.

We see the slow fall the family begins to take and we are even touched at the little child's innocence and how he never ever picks up the signals that his parent's marriage is breaking apart. The performances by the actors are especially effective particularly by the two leads: Richard Gere and Diane Lane. Gere is heartbreaking in a role that plays opposite to the playboy image that made him famous as he plays the role of a man whose own world falls apart as he begins to suspect his wife's infidelity and his own humiliation begins to take a toll on him.

He never even asks his wife if she is cheating but hires a private detective. The ending when he tells Connie that it was her that he hated and it was her that he wished would die And of course there is Diane Lane: she was beautiful at 13 and she is beautiful today.

She is magnificent in this role which was originally intended for actresses like Sharon Stone and Kim Basinger who were the original choices for the role of Connie. But one word describes Lane's performance: luminous. The classic Lane moment was the scene with her on the train on her way home after her first sexual encounter with Paul.

A scene that was shot only once and Lane's expressions changes from giddy, guilty, shameful, embarrassed, and excited as she cries and laughs and giggles. All of these expressions flashing through in a matter of seconds all in one shot! The scene where she finds the pictures of her and her lover taken by the private detective; How she looks through them and waves of nausea, embarrassment, guilt, and absolute regret.

The scene where she sits by the fireplace as she burns the pictures taken by the PI and she looks back and wishes that she had never gone up in the apartment and if she had just gone home.

Lane doesn't make us hate her character but at the same time doesn't really allow us to condone Connie's actions. She rather shows the audience that Connie is only a HUMAN being and she is not perfect and she made a mistake and that she feels lust and also feels guilt. It is a touching and sexy performance. Even Olivier Martinez plays his role effectively.

He is if anything an innocent. He didn't fall in love with Connie and he wasn't searching for anyone. He was simply fulfilling his own desires and hers and it aroused him, but his desires in the end made him the victim of a tragedy that didn't need to happen. He is also very sexy and very mysterious and what woman in the planet wouldn't lust after him! Unfaithful really plays itself out as a human story about lust and the consequences but it doesn't preach. It's message is that no one is perfect and everyone is only human and we respond to the basic human desires and needs but there is always a consequence for every decision or impulse made.

An excellent film. Chrysanthepop from Fraggle Rock, 15 July I wasn't expecting much from 'Unfaithful' as I thought it would be another 'The Perfect Murder' type thriller.

But 'Unfaithful' is so much more than what 'The Perfect Murder' could ever be. It's deeper. It's darker. It has so many psychological layers. It's more a character driven drama rather than than plot driven. The plot may not be exactly original but it's the influence of it on the characters is what 'Unfaithful' is about. The film is very engaging as we witness the psychological effects of the consequences of Connie's decision. Lyne deserves praise for his excellent artistic execution.

I loved how he used symbolism such as metaphors and pathetic fallacies and shows great attention to detail as is evident in the visuals. The editing is clear cut. Biziou's cinematography is great and Kaczmarek's score sets the tone. Note that during the key moments, when the main characters are conversing, the background music is absent. Richard Gere and Olivier Martinez, though a little too old, do decent jobs. However, it is Diane Lane who gives a career-defining performance.

Her sublime portrayal of the incredibly sexy Connie is awesome. She carries the film. It is Diane Lane and Adrian Lyne's film. I don't understand why some were even harsh enough to call it soft-core. Do they even know the definition of soft-core? Others seem to have a problem with why Connie, who had the perfect life, would have an affair. But I feel it necessary to stress that nobody is perfect and therefore the perfect life does not exist. Connie's affair wasn't a planned thing.

Who knows why it happened? Perhaps she wanted to feel younger, perhaps she was bored, or perhaps she wanted more from her husband. I don't think it was with the intention to ruin her 'perfect' life. There doesn't have to be a clear reason The story in this film is pretty much exactly what I expected. I really liked that they made Richard Gere out to be a perfect husband and a very loving husband.

You really feel for his character when he finds out about the affair. I thought Diane Lane did a great job as always and looks better than ever, she is one gorgeous woman. I thought Oliver Martinez did a good job too, I'd never heard of him till seeing this film. There are a few things in the film that didn't sit well with me, but they were so minor that it's not worth talking about.

And the scenes that I did like made up for it. There is one scene in particular that I just loved. If you've already seen the film, it's the scene after Richard Gere finds out about the affair.

Also the ending is very interesting, I won't say it's bad or it's good, but interesting. You'll see what I mean when you see the film. I'm just saying that you may feel uncomfortable watching these scenes with certain people sitting right next to you. All in all, I thought it was a very interesting movie, and the story was told quite well. I'm not sure if I liked this film better than "Fatal Attraction", but you can tell it's the work of the same director. I hope you like the film as much as I did.

Thanks for reading. There is no such thing as an indifferent movie directed by Adrian Lyne. You'll either love it or hate it. I liked "Fatal Attraction" though I prefer the original ending, not the revised, way-over-the-top, grade B shock ending. I was not impressed with his other hit "Flashdance". Many viewers have said that "Unfaithful" is simply a role reversal of Lyne's earlier hit "Fatal Attraction".

It might be accurate but I don't think it's totally a fair comparison. It was a need that, for some reason, was not met with her husband. At the same time, the affair became more of an addiction for Connie. There's no love at all in that relationship. There is love between Connie and Edward Richard Gere but from what is presented on the screen, their love is on low tide. They certainly took each other for granted. There was no easy out for Connie and Edward and no tidy endings.

Gere was O. That's not to say he was bad. He didn't impress me very much.