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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. ....

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