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Diane Lane, who plays Connie Sumner in Unfaithful, at the True Grit premiere during the 2011 Berlin Film Festival. This is an event photograph, not a film still. Photo: Siebbi , CC BY 3.0 . Cropped version supplied by Wikimedia Commons; display size adjusted. Spoiler note: This review discusses the central affair and its consequences. Richard Gere, Edward Sumner in Unfaithful, photographed at The Dinner premiere during the 2017 Berlinale. Event portrait, not a film still. Photo: Maximilian Bühn , CC BY-SA 4.0 . Cropped from the premiere group photograph; display size adjusted. Unfaithful works best when it makes an ordinary moment feel irreversible. A meeting becomes an attraction; an attraction becomes a secret; that secret changes how every familiar room and conversation feels. The tension comes from watching choices accumulate, rather than from waiting for an elaborate plot twist. Directed by Adrian Lyne and released in 2002, the film follows Connie and Edward Sumner, played by...