Sarah is a passionate woman trapped in a lifeless marriage, into her life wanders Maurice, a young novelist, and together they enter a fevered and sexually dominant affair that is to last five years until Sarah abruptly walks out of his life. A chance encounter with Sarah's husband a few years later rekindles Maurice's obsession and so begins his desperate search for a meaning as to why she left him. The End Of The Affair is a beautiful and powerful tale borne not so much of love as obsession an
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THE HEART OF THE MATTER (1953)
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Sierra Leone 1942; Trevor Howard gives perhaps his best performance as the humane deputy police commissioner in debt to a local trader and being blackmailed for having an affair outside his failed marriage. In the book, riddled with guilt, he kills himself, one of the deepest sins of his Catholic faith, but in the film his death is accidental. Nevertheless this tale of torment is an atmospheric and noteworthy adaptation of one of Greene's works and a superbly acted depictation of religious and m
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