Let’s discuss the movie “Unfaithful” (2002) and Diane Lanes brilliant performance

The snow globe scene greatly disturbed me!

The scene where Diane is riding the train back to Westchester lost in her own thoughts is brilliant.

Yes, she did some good acting in that movie. Richard Gere is always kind of wooden to me.

The subject matter is an old story (the real cost of infidelity in a marriage). This movie really made you think twice about having a fling.

Brilliant acting

I remember when this movie came out Diane Lane was touted as some old lady and Olivier Martinez as her boytoy. She's only a year older than him -- and she had recently turned 37 when the film was released!

Richard gere was miscast. He seems too easy going and cerebral to go off the deep end like that.

Richard Gere was 100% miscast.

Go back to your suburbs!

Oh boy that stairway scene!

I can never remember, is Olivier Martinez the guy who was beat up by crazy Halle Berry's new piece , or was he the guy dishing out the beating?

I love Diane. I always forget her (and so does everyone else) , but she has to be the prettiest and most talented leading Lady of her generation. She always seems to be on the brink of stardom, and then it doesn't happen. Her time has passed now. Wonder why it didn't happen for her. She was fantastic in "a perfect storm" when she did her big come-back. She reminds me of Nat. Wood.

Diane doesn’t care about fame. I love watching her in interviews.

R10 I think he’s the one that earned the beating and got it.

Pure speculation but I think she was passed over because she wouldn't put out. Similar to Jennifer Connolly..

Diane Lane was great in the movie and could you get any more beautiful than oliver martinez? That film was shot at the height of his male beauty.

Acting experts — what in particular stands out in Diane’s performance?

Has anyone seen the French film this one was based on? Is it worth checking out?

It's one of my all-time fave's. I often wonder if they turn themselves in at the end

The train scene is similar to a train scene with Streep in "Falling in Love".

Oh no! She sucks! She’s no Meryl!!

She gave a beautiful performance

She truly is beautiful - then and now. The Outsiders is playing on AMC now and she was so beautiful. Still is. Streets of Fire, Lady Beware, The Big Town, Under the Tuscan Sun, she is great.

Interesting, she'll be playing Kevin Costner's wife again in her next movie. He's ten years older. And she's 55!

Did anyone else laugh at the snowglobe scene?

I don't think she was so great.

She was OK.

Weird casting that. odd looking kid as the son of those two handsome parents.

[quote]Did anyone else laugh at the snowglobe scene?

Which one?

Richard Burton's daughter played one of the fraus who know her from the suburbs, in that café across the street from Olivier's. That was a good scene.

R24 the scene where Gere hits his wife's hot new piece. I know it wasn't supposed to be comical but I giggled a bit

Olivier's accent was atrocious.

When Frenchies act in American films it sounds so odd - like singing the wrong words to a song.

Yes R11. Diane is a beautiful pretty pretty woman. Lovely. I can't resist her. She's also a beautiful understated actress.

It's been a very long time since I saw the film, if I remember correctly didn't Diane's character know at the end that her husband offed her lover?

I just remember the scene where there is a big wind in the street that blows up her dress. Those kinds of scenes always make me wonder how many takes they did to get the special effects right. Hate Gere - he has absence, not presence.

I don't think Gere was miscast. The movie showed that even a handsome husband can be cuckolded. Plus, the murder was set up psychologically by our seeing Gere as a tyrannical boss who callously fires an employee. Thus, Gere's sudden eruption into murder when he hears that his wife gave her lover a special snowglobe that Gere had bought, is eminently credible. Later, when he cries out, "I didn't want to kill him; I wanted to kill YOU!" we believe him. But he loves his wife, so he spares her and for a brief moment thinks his nightmare was only that.

Diane Lane, IMO, portrayed the all-consuming, mind and body, nature of lust 100% accurately. The initial trepidatious phone call; the later planning and lying; the guilty gift of the sweater; her inability to remember her maternal duties or to pay attention to her friends; her risk-taking with adulterous sex and affection in public places; her uncontrollable need to turn her car around to see Olivier, only to become a madwoman when she finds him with another, younger woman.

And once the storm of lust and murder has given way to clear skies, the couple understand what they must do: confess. He

R29, Yes, because she sees that her husband has brought back the snowglobe.

Delete that "He" in r31.

R32 Thanks. I vaguely recalled that she found out somehow but couldn't remember the details

r13 Jennifer Connelly is a great lady, worked on a film she was in and she was the only one of the cast who came to the crew party.

We need more directors like Adrian Lyne - who makes films for adults. He's always made interesting films. He is directing the new Ben Affleck film, which is the first film he's directed since Unfaithful.

He usually gets strong performance form his female leads - Cherie Currie and Jodie Foster in Foxes; Jennifer Beals in Flashdance; Kim Basinger in 9 1/2 Weeks; Glenn in Fatal Attraction; Melanie Griffith in Lolita and, of course, Lane in Unfaithful.

When Diane eats the candy she has made her son spit out the audience I was in all went Eww.