THE END OF THE AFFAIR

THE END WAS JUST THE BEGINNING

CRITICS' REVIEWS

"Moore -- looking impeccably period in Oscar-winner Sandy Powell's '40s styles -- is as wonderful as ever, playing Sarah with a faultless Brit accent and a full menu of guilt and heavy passion beneath a prim exterior."

Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDwire

"...But Julianne Moore outshines them all. Moore is one of the purest actors in movies today; her economy and emotional directness make the technical proficiency of a Meryl Streep or Kristin Scott Thomas look facile and synthetic by comparison. She disappears so far inside of Sarah that you don't even notice the period costumes or jewelry she's arrayed in - she wears them like belongings, not like props. Moore makes Sarah seem like a real person around whom a talented band of actors have gathered. She's given birth to a new human being."
Tom Block
CULTUREVULTURE.NET

"Moore is, as always, selfless and savagely real in the most restrained manner possible. She can somehow transform base acts such as sex into weighty metaphors of life, often with gestures, looks and an absolute minimum of words. Extraordinary."

Bruce Kirkland
JAM! MOVIES

"Ms. Moore, who has never looked more beautiful on screen, brings strength and rapturousness to her potentially melodramatic role, and casts a spell that is never broken."

Janet Maslin
THE NEW YORK TIMES

"The picture belongs to Moore, however, who goes British faultlessly, combining elegance and sensuality in a stunning, textured performance as a woman capable of the greatest selflessness and sacrifice."

Luisa F. Ribeiro
BALTIMORE CITY PAPER

"Fiennes and Moore are two of the most impressive screen actors, and they have excellent chemistry together, as his fatalistic personality interacts splendidly with her warmer, more human but in some ways even more complex and unknowable persona."

Kenneth Turan
LA TIMES

"Julianne Moore, breathtakingly lovely in period costume, makes Sarah’s moral suffering tangible and excruciating — it’s a performance that’s almost glamorous in its rejection of glamour."

Sam Adams
PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER

"Henry's beautiful wife of ten years is Sarah Miles, played by national treasure Julianne Moore."

Heather Clisby
MOVIE MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL

"The gifted American actress, Julianne Moore, is magnetic as Sarah in all her radiance, sensuality and vulnerability."

Michael Dwyer
THE IRISH TIMES

"Andre Gregory, who directed Julianne Moore onstage in ‘Uncle Vanya,’ once told me that she evoked the sensuality and urgency of ‘a young Joan Crawford, but with more depth, more contradictions.’ Louis Malle, who directed her in the 1994 movie version, ‘Vanya on 42nd Street,’ said that she made him think of the greatest of all ravaged beauties, ‘Jeanne Moreau -- and that for me is the highest compliment.’

In writer-director Neil Jordan's ‘The End of the Affair,’ a turbulent and imaginative reworking of Graham Greene's strange, classic novel about a devastating romance, Julianne Moore has a unique mixture of fire and contemplation, discipline and sublimity. She's like Aphrodite and Athena fused into one.

Moore won praise -- and notoriety -- for a bottomless turn in ‘Short Cuts’ and as the slightly faded porn star in ‘Boogie Nights.’ But only here and in ‘Vanya on 42nd Street’ has Moore had the opportunity onscreen to display her full range of instinct, passion and intellect. In ‘The End of the Affair,’ your head wrestles with Greene's themes and ambiguities while your heart swells and bursts at the sight of her elation and suffering. She provides the ballast that gives the movie's blend of acerbic observation, sentiment and theology its powder-keg potency."

Michael Sragow
SALON

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