
The End of the Affair
The end was just the beginning.
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Release Date
12/3/1999Runtime
102 minsOverview
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$23,000,000Revenue
$10,827,816Homepage
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A haunting portrait of desire and regret set in post-war London, where a man's obsessive spiral into investigating an old lover's disappearance becomes a meditation on what we cannot possess or understand about those we've loved.
Mood
MelancholicBittersweetWistful
Themes
LoveObsessionBetrayalGriefFaith
Tone
Tender
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Framed flashback
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