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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

A member of Parliament (Jeremy Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée despite the dangers of discovery.At the time of its release, the film achieved some acclaim. Miranda Richardson was nominated for an Academy Award and won a BAFTA in the category of Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the aggrieved wife of the film's main character. If anyone deserves to be singled out, it is Richardson.This film on its surface is not that amazing. You want it to be, because it is Louis Malle. But this is what happens when you cast Jeremy Irons. He is very understated, and his performances are art that may need to be digested, sometimes in multiple viewings. This is most evident in his work with Cronenberg, but very much here, too.

..have watched this film couple-three times through the years.. and really do very much like all the actors involved.. but it's a clear and simple case of an over exaggerated script and similar direction.. in real life, unless you're mentally incapacitated, you know there are actual consequences to your actions, yet here you have two seemingly highly intelligent individuals blowing up their entire lives, and those of loved ones around them, all for a totally unworkable relationship.. and then one of the final scenes ices it.. the two of them flailing around in bed like no other on-screen couple you've seen before or since.. really, had they just toned it down a notch or two overall.. it would have come off sooo much better..

"Getting to the top" seems the only immediate goal of Stephen Fleming, the middle -aged British politician. He has a grownup son Martyn, who works as an upcoming journalist and a younger daughter Sally. His wife Ingrid is lovely, intelligent and mature., though their conjugal life seems more like an effort.. This seemingly perfect life of Stephen suddenly changes when he meets Anna, his son Martyn's fiancée.. Their mutual attraction is magnetic and electric.. and becomes compulsive and consuming.. Other characters in the story step in one by one, Stephen's father, Anna's ex Peter, Anna's mother and the viewer is made to feel of the tension building till the secret spills out first to one , then to another and to another till the inevitable tragedy, strikes in the nature of an accident..The story is great.. each character is built meticulously in the script and in the movie.. removal of even a single character / single frame would make the movie incomplete..The erotic scenes between Stephen ( Jeremy Irons ) and Anna ( Juliette Binoche ) are graphic , but serve adequately to depict the obsessive nature of their love..Miranda Richardson rightfully won Oscar nomination and BAFTA award for her role as Ingrid. But unfortunately Jeremy Irons and Julitte Binoche did not get any awards ,despite their strong performances..Julitte Binoche is breath-taking and has given a killer performance and Jeremy Irons is done full justice to the character and role.. Both have spoken much more through their face and eyes than through their lips..

Jeremy Irons is wonderful as Dr. Stephen Fleming, a politician aspiring to the cabinet, a man who is good at "little things" (as his wife notes), like environmental issues, political talks in Brussels, and public relations. He also has a seemingly "perfect" family life. Miranda Richardson is very good here in an understated performance, as his wife. Also, Rupert Graves as son Martyn.Martyn meets Anna (Juliette Binoche), who dresses in black leather (rater trite, typecasting costume at first), and who immediately is attracted to Dr. Fleming although she is dating his son.There is an excellent cameo with the always lovely Leslie Caron as Binoche's infamous mother ( a fun woman married four, almost five times) who makes the mistake of mentioning that Ana has usually been attracted to "the wrong type of man" until now.She is insightful and asks Dr. Fleming to step away from her daughter so as her daughter may have a future, and happy marriage.Of course, as affairs go, the story makes sense, since it cannot be controlled, Dr. Fleming cannot stop his compulsion to be with Anna. The sex scenes are effective and not crudely done, although in the first scene as they make love, Binoche seems rather stiff as she submits to Stephen, after inviting him over to her apartment.I appreciated the realistic and sometimes sardonic nature of this film. An affair always has far reaching effects. The end is a bit of a shock but fits with the motif of this story. I had seen this film many years ago and while Juliette Binoche is lovely I sometimes had the casting idea that a different actress may have fit the wanton role more aptly, not sure who though.At any rate this is an excellent film with many gray areas, anyone who has been married and been through infidelity will appreciate the nuances of this film. 10/10.