Word: stephenes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story is simple: In the last months of World War II, photogenic Brits Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) and Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore) embark on a torrid love affair. Sarah's husband Henry (Stephen Rea), a virtually impotent workaholic, gradually develops a friendship with handsome novelist Bendrix as the latter becomes increasingly obsessed with the illicit romance. Without warning, Sarah ends the relationship, crushing Bendrix; when we meet him, two years later, his bitterness has not diminished. When a chance meeting with Henry reawakens his barely submerged passion, he hires a private detective to follow his beloved and discover...
...strengths of the film are largely those of its great character actors. Stephen Rea, a Jordan veteran (this is his eighth film with the director), turns in a heartfelt and understated performance as Henry. Rather than playing up to traditional jilted husband clichs, Rea imbues the character with a sad dignity that ends up far more affecting than the lovers' travails. As Parkis, the detective hired by Bendrix to follow Sarah, the enormously underrated British actor Ian Hart steals every scene he's in. His Parkis is bumbling and a bit obsequious, but somehow a pervasive pathos in the performance...
Today, though, Jordan is far more interested in discussing his newest feature, The End of the Affair, an adaptation of a Graham Greene novel, starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Jordan favorite Stephen Rea. When it's pointed out that Rea has appeared in eight out of his ten films, Jordan deadpans, "Well, I owe him an awful lot of money from a bet years ago." When pressed on why Rea was right for the part of Henry, the film's jilted husband, Jordan replies, "I needed a strong and incredibly subtle actor for that. It's not an attractive...
Bernstein's brilliant melodies coupled with Stephen Sondheim's moving lyrics tell a story of injustice, poverty, crime and, yes, stereotype. But that story is intentionally told to reveal the assumptions inherent in society, to point them out to the audience in order to combat them, not to perpetuate them, as the Amherst petition's signers would have us believe...
...Stephen E. Sachs '02, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Quincy House...