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Two wives are drawn together by an erotic undertow in the ultimately frustrating Affair
Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
March 3, 2021
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An interesting but ultimately frustrating struggle between form and content animates The Affair, an attractive but inert drama set in Czechoslovakia amid the most pivotal events of the 20th century.
Hanna Alstrom and Carice van Houten play Liesel and Hana, best friends whose relationship possesses an undeniably erotic undertow, even after they re both married. In Liesel s case, the man in question is Viktor Landauer (Claes Bang), a prosperous auto executive who shares his wife s taste for sleek, modernist lines. They commission a noted German architect to build a low-slung, glass-and-steel house outside the metropolis of Brno. Initially a monument to the optimism and boldness of prewar Europe, the Landauer house goes from being a statement to a family home, as Liesel and Viktor begin to have children; with the adv
Elegant but uninvolving.
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The star-crossed love between married friends (Carice van Houten and Hanna Alström) plays out against decades of political upheaval in an English-language drama from Czechoslovakia.
A real-life architectural gem is the centerpiece of
The Affair and, in many ways, its most compelling character. The building is a modernist masterpiece, completed in 1930, when the term modernist embodied the thrill of risk-taking in a new age.
As in the movie s source material, Simon Mawer s 2009 novel
The Glass Room, the house is a hilltop construction of clean geometric lines, designed to hold light, and its changes in ownership over the years map out the tumultuous history of 20th century Czechoslovakia. Abstract concepts and aesthetic ideals kick-start the handsome yet muddled feature, but, as the English title suggests, romantic melodrama is the main event.