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The End of the Affair

...the performances alone are worth the watch.

The film is about love and adultery in cold, dark, wartime London--when sex was a moment of stolen warmth, an interlude between the air raids and the daily grind of rationing and restrictions.

...an elegant period weepie that adds subtle shades of romantic fatalism and religious intrigue to an otherwise generic tale of doomed amour.

The film rests on three excellent performances, of which the most difficult is Stephen Rea's; where Henry could easily be pathetic and ridiculous, Rea gives him a certain doggy dignity...