The End of the Affair

Director: Neil Jordan

Overview

"A powerful romantic detective story that merits repeated viewings, Neil Jordan's adaptation of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair receives a stellar DVD release. The widescreen anamorphic transfer beautifully presents Roger Pratt's atmospheric lightin

Product Details

Release Date:	03/22/2005
UPC:	0043396047457
Original Release:	1999
Rating:	R
Source:	SONY PICTURES
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Full Frame, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:41:00
Sales rank:	18,964

Special Features

"Digitally mastered audio & anamorphic video","Widescreen and full-screen presentations","Audio: English 5.1 (Dolby Digital)","Subtitles: English","Director Neil Jordan's commentary","Julianne Moore's commentary","Making-of featurette","Isolated music score","Theatrical trailers","Talent files","Interactive menus","Production notes","Scene selections"

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ralph Fiennes	Maurice Bendrix
Julianne Moore	Sarah Miles
Stephen Rea	Henry Miles
Ian Hart	Mr. Parkis
Jason Isaacs	Father Smythe
Sam Bould	Lance Parkis
James Bolam	Mr. Savage
Deborah Findlay	Miss Smythe
Simon Turner	Doctor Gilbert
Heather Jay Jones	Henry's Maid,Dienstm?dchen
Nicholas Hewetson	Chief Warden
Penny Morrell	Bendrix's Landlady
Cyril Shaps	Waiter
Simon Fisher-Turner	Dr. Gilbert
Jack McKenzie	Chief Engineer
Michael Nyman	Composer

Technical Credits

Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan	Screenwriter,Producer
Susie Figgis	Casting
Greg Powell	Stunts
Stephen Woolley	Producer
David A. Stephenson	Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Side #1 --
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [3:42]
2. Jealous Henry Miles [4:01]
3. Night They Met [3:09]
4. "I'm in Love." [1:09]
5. The Affair Begins [3:38]
6. Mr. Savage [2:52]
7. "Haunted Heart" [2:09]
8. Worried About Henry [3:47]
9. Mr. Parkis [6:12]
10. The Earth Moves [4:30]
11. Exhibits A & B [5:10]
12. Father Smythe [2:15]
13. Detective's Report [1:52]
14. Two Bores [1:48]
15. V1 Attack [1:56]
16. "You're Alive?" [5:13]
17. Sarah's Diary [2:33]
18. Answered Prayers [8:04]
19. Seeking Peace [4:33]
20. "Don't Leave Me." [3:58]
21. Returning the Diary [4:27]
22. Brighton [1:15]
23. Parkis' Brief [2:52]
24. "You'll Marry Me?" [1:26]
25. Bad News [5:40]
26. Bedside Confession [3:15]
27. The End Comes [3:57]
28. Final Miracle [5:51]

Menu

Side #1 --
Play Movie
Widescreen
Full Screen
Aspect Ratio Selection
Widescreen
Full Screen
Audio Set-Up
English 5.1 Dolby Digital
Isolated Music Score
Subtitles
English
Subtitles Off
Special Features
Making-of Featurette
Talent Files
Neil Jordan
Ralph Fiennes
Julianne Moore
Stephen Rea
Theatrical Trailers
The End of the Affair (1999)
The Remains of the Day
Audio Commentaries
Director Neil Jordan: On
Director Neil Jordan: Off
Julianne Moore: On
Julianne Moore: Off

Editorial Reviews

Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan has a sensuous fascination with the darker impulses that drive human behavior. His rain-swept adaptation of Graham Greene's semiautobiographical novel, The End of the Affair, explores an adulterous love affair set in smoldering relief against the devastation of war-torn London in the 1940s. Ralph Fiennes stars as a brooding novelist obsessively in love with his neighbor's wife (Julianne Moore). Moore's understated performance garnered her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and the dynamic Stephen Rea (The Crying Game, Interview With a Vampire) is also extraordinary as her cuckolded civil servant husband. True to Greene's book, the characters speak in dialogue layered with irony, and the sex scenes are provocatively restrained. The affair evolves in an elegant series of flashbacks within flashbacks, with Fiennes's character narrating in voice-over a tale that is a meditation on loss, misunderstanding, and the horrendous twists of fate that call the very nature of faith into question.