the audience applauded

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I've had a lot of experience with women in Russia, and this movie portrays what a lot of them are like. They are very cunning, ruthless, and greedy, as well as highly unfair. From the robotic sex, the hustling for gifts, to the lies and betrayal, I've experienced it all in Russia. And the process of dealing with the big agencies and their commercialism was pretty accurate too. I don't know why A Foreign Affair endorses and recommends this film though.I know what I'm talking about. And here are my qualifications to prove it: Here are the photojournals of my three trips to Russia in search of a bride. It includes thousands of pics of many hot Russian girls I met, black comedy, scams I was privy to, and the story of my mugging and appearance on Russian national TV.http://www.happierabroad.com/Photojournals.htm It's like Reality TV. You will love it. I spent a ton of time putting it together. So check it out. The Russian woman that hustles for that farmer to buy her gifts is a lot like the Julia and Katya in my photojournals.My 3 bride seeking trips in Russia happen to be very exciting and would sell, so why don't they make a movie out of my bride seeking adventures in Russia? WuMaster I got everything I wanted by going abroad! You can too! http://www.happierabroad.com

A Foreign Affair will open on May 7, 2004 in Los Angeles, Phoenix (where the A Foreign Affair romance tour company is located) and Grand Rapids, Michigan, home of Calvin College, where screenwriter Geert Heetebrij went to school. I'd highly recommend seeing the film that weekend if you live anywhere near one of these cities. The film was made on a shoestring budget and so it depends not on special effects, car chases and elaborate scenes, but simply on good acting, a compelling storyline and beautiful cinematography. The premise of the film is simple: two brothers live with their mother and when she dies they're left alone with no abilities to fend for themselves. They head to Russia on a romance tour to find a "wife." They want someone to cook and clean for them for the two years it would take their "bride" to get her green card. Along the way both brothers discover things about themselves and each other, with unexpected results. A Foreign Affair is a quirky, funny, sometimes sweet and always thoughtful piece of filmmaking. It was produced as an independent film, outside of the Hollywood process, and it shows. Well done.

Two momma's boys searching for a mail order Russian bride not for love or sex but to replace their dead mother as a housekeeper on their isolated southwestern farm, Tim Blake Nelson and David Arquette, go to Russia on a romance tour organized by a company (that really exists) called A Foreign Affair. The portrayal of the romance tour/Russian bride business is satirical, very funny but not unkind, but the real interest of the movie lies in the story of the two brothers discovering their true (and different) selves. The movie features a luminous performance by Emily Mortimer as a documentary filming British journalist who speaks fluent Russian and who encounters Blake Nelson in the course of the trip to St. Petersburg. The movie makes miraculous use of its limited budget and has numerous witty touches.

Tim Blake Nelson and David Arquette are brothers and farmers. When their mother dies, Nelson decides they should go find a wife "for cooking and cleaning but not for sex." They travel to St Petersburg Russia on a "romance" tour to find a wife. There they run into Emily Mortimer who's filming a documentary on these introduction services. The three leads are excellent with particular kudos to Nelson who delivers an honest performance as the older brother desperately trying to find a wife to take back. Arquette makes a nice turn as a mama's boy becoming a lothario and Mortimer is wonderful as the observer who becomes a part of the story. A very pleasant surprise of a movie. The Russian sequences were shot over two weeks during an actual romance tour.