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Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Heather Jay Jones, James Bolam
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) has a chance meeting with Henry Miles (Stephen Rea), husband of his ex-mistress Sarah (Julianne Moore), who abruptly ended the...( read more
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I wasn?t convinced I was going to like it as I wasn?t a great fan of the book but this is a brilliant adaptation from Neil Jordan, who really captures the essence of the characters!
Terribly bland and brash. The film lacks elegant subtlety so just about every theme is repeated out loud and then again in Fiennes' narration which is simply laughable. Why Jordan continues to cast Stephen Rea is anyones guess. He is either a dull mess, like he is here, or an ove...( read more)
Disappointin one from Neil Jordan - good cast, decent dialogue but horrible screenplay and annoying music. Even Julianne Moore's tits were not worth it.
This film gave me far more than I was expecting. A spectacular Ralph Fiennes (did I expect less) in a role most typical for him. I'd love to know if it is his own bum we get to see both in this and in many other of his films or if he has a stunt man to do the job.
I can rela...( read more)
Lushly romantic, passionate war-time drama centered on a philosophical conflict between secular love and religious conversion. Ralph Fiennes limns the depths of jealousy as the brooding, thwarted lover eclipsed by Julianne Moore's alternately restrained, carnal, and ethereal perf...( read more)
Two very gifted stars brought Graham Greene's novel to life. Also masterfully constructed by writer-director Neil Jordan. Ralph Fiennes has a face made to make period pictures, he plays a brooding novelist who loves Moore 's character with an obsessive passion and Moore was perfe...( read more)
I think I pretty much love any movie whereas Ralph Fiennes plays a tortured lover. It must be the British accent that does it for me, because I can't think of one American actor who would do a good job and not look like he was ACTING. (Think Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampir...( read more)
i do not know if i would like the film or not said i had a mixed feelings about it. i'm sure the only actor i care is ralph fiennes. i'm not sure julianne moore deserve her best actress nominations because i thought she's supporting here.
this movie was really sad and sweet ....
I really loved it ...
