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Adrian Lyne: Diane Lane
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Adrian Lyne's latest thriller Unfaithful is based on Claude Chabrols 1969 film Unfaithful Wife. Here's the set up: Richard Gere and Diane Lane play Charlie and Connie Sumner, the modern day "perfect couple" that you see in all of those cheesy wine ads on TV. They have a charming young son and a beautiful house not far from New York City.
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In Adrian Lyne's erotic thriller, Diane Lane is Connie, a wife and mother who lives in a beautiful house with her handsome husband, Edward (Richard Gere). But their marriage has lost its sexual spark, and when Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul (Olivier Martinez), he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair.
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Lyne says that when he showed the film to test audiences, some men were so enraged by Lane's betrayal of her husband, played by Richard Gere, that he stopped reading their reaction cards. Focus groups would erupt in heated arguments. "One of the men would say, 'I can't understand how this woman could have an affair when her marriage was so good. It's such a slutty thing to do.' And women would go crazy. They'd pounce on the guy, saying, 'That's the point, you idiot! You do irrational things when sex is involved.'"
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Lyne's latest release, Unfaithful, deals with the director's familiar themes of steamy sex and bloody violence. The film is set in New York, where Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) lives happily with her successful, loving husband Edward (Richard Gere). A chance encounter with Paul (Oliver Martinez), a young French book dealer, tempts Connie into a passionate and increasingly dangerous affair that eventually results in tragedy.
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For this story of marital infidelity, Lyne puts his patented emotional button-pusher away long enough to allow Diane Lane (A Walk on the Moon) to give another Academy Award-caliber performance, the year's finest by a female lead. As a loving wife and devoted mother who strays from the idyll of her seemingly perfect marriage to indulge in a torrid affair with a young book dealer named Paul (Olivier Martinez), Lane's sexily conflicted Connie Sumner moors the first half of Lyne's film; makes it, in fact, stick in the throat.
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Having created the background of a happy marriage, Lyne was careful to cast a sympathetic actor in Connie's role. He says he was "bewitched" by Lane in A Walk on the Moon, in which she played a Jewish housewife who is tempted by a hippie in 1969. Lyne says she was "very sympathetic and vulnerable" in the film.
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