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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 FacebookTwitterEmail 3of3 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 c ....
New movies to stream this week: Cowboys, Spoor and moreWrite headline here Michael O Sullivan, The Washington Post Jan. 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of15Steve Zahn, right, and Sasha Knight in Cowboys. Samuel Goldwyn FilmsShow MoreShow Less 2of15Agnieszka Mandat-Grabka, left, and Miroslav Krobot in Spoor. Robert Palka/Samuel Goldwyn FilmsShow MoreShow Less 3of15 4of15Mohamad Dalli, left, and Gia Madi in 1982. Mad Dog Films/Tricycle Logic/Abbout ProductionsShow MoreShow Less 5of15Filmmaker Justin McConnell in Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business. Gravitas VenturesShow MoreShow Less 6of15 7of15Dorian Missick, right, and Elimu Nelson in A Cold Hard Truth. Indican PicturesShow MoreShow Less ....