An Affair of Love

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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Fonteyne edges closer than most to capturing the mysterious rhythms of liaisons -- pornographique, romantique, and otherwise.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
An extraordinarily perfect little film: A bittersweet drama that explores sexuality and love, and their reverberations across the landscape of human emotions.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It is about the desiring itself, not about what they desire. That makes it more intriguing than if we knew their secret--and sexier.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
This wee, discreet little movie has a certain rueful intelligence about the ways we rather carelessly talk ourselves into love--and out of it as well.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
This sweet, pensive gabfest is neither conventionally romantic nor pornographic.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Has the rare distinction of being slight and tragic at the same time.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Smells much more like real life than the immediate mating that occurs between expensive movie stars on Hollywood soundstages.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
A film as romantic as its title.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
A bit of a cop-out, wrapping in wistful sentimentality a failure to acknowledge a connection that is more than epidermal.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
A bittersweet duet convincingly, if unexcitingly, performed by Baye and Lopez.Read Full Review »
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