Synopsis
Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.
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Cast
- Hanna AlströmLiesel Landauer
- Karel RodenRainer von Abt
- Carice van HoutenHana
- Claes BangViktor Landauer
- Roland MøllerStahl
- Alexandra BorbélyKata
- Karel DobrýLáník
- Zuzana FialováLáníková
- Brian CaspeGestapo Officer
- Petra BučkováNeighbour
Recommendations
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ReelViews
The problem with The Affair is that once the World War II segments have ended, the movie loses its momentum and ability to balance both sides of the romance. - 63
ReelViews
The problem with The Affair is that once the World War II segments have ended, the movie loses its momentum and ability to balance both sides of the romance. - 50
Original-Cin
The best way to appreciate The Affair is to sidestep its pot-boiler pretentious and think of as an exceptionally elegant episode of House Hunters International. - 50
Original-Cin
The best way to appreciate The Affair is to sidestep its pot-boiler pretentious and think of as an exceptionally elegant episode of House Hunters International. - 42
IndieWire
While The Affair rather adamantly insists that life doesn’t adhere to the idealized cleanliness of modern design, this hollow adaptation also never allows itself to share in the forward-thinking courage of its architecture. - 42
IndieWire
While The Affair rather adamantly insists that life doesn’t adhere to the idealized cleanliness of modern design, this hollow adaptation also never allows itself to share in the forward-thinking courage of its architecture. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The unconsummated attraction between best friends played by Carice van Houten and Hanna Alström clearly is meant to be its emotional pulse. Yet however sensitive the two leads' performances, The Affair rarely gathers the necessary intensity. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The unconsummated attraction between best friends played by Carice van Houten and Hanna Alström clearly is meant to be its emotional pulse. Yet however sensitive the two leads' performances, The Affair rarely gathers the necessary intensity.
