"Affair.." is a technically and artistically well crafted film about an affair between an middle-aged couple who meet online and subsequently, at regular intervals, in a cafe where, after some chit-chat, they go off to a hotel for the physical activity. Most of what happens sexually in this sanitized film is behind closed doors and the audience is left to speculate. Their past and who they really are remains a mystery as well. In short we are never allowed to become involved with them in any way other than as voyeurs watching them analyze their feelings as they try to figure out if they are falling in love while leaving us with a feeling of detachment....outsiders looking in with the real story just beyond our reach as the film serves up one bit of story at a time all the way to its anticlimactic conclusion. For some the enigmatic nature of the film will be enough. For others the film will prove tedious.
Review of An Affair of Love
