USA: RICHARD GERE AND DIANNE LANE ATTEND NEW YORK PREMIERE OF THEIR NEW FILM, "UNFAITHFUL".

Record ID: 392698

  • Title: USA: RICHARD GERE AND DIANNE LANE ATTEND NEW YORK PREMIERE OF THEIR NEW FILM, "UNFAITHFUL".
  • Date: 14th April 2002
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (APRIL 14, 2002) (REUTERS) MCU: SOUNDBITE (English) ADRIAN LYNE SAYING "It's nice people doing awful things, which I think is interesting. Um, it's a happily married woman being unfaithful for no reason whatsoever. That's what I think is interesting. It's that she doesn't have a crappy marriage, she has a nice marriage, they have a nice kid, a nice house, and every reason not to have an affair. And the truth is that people do have affairs and they're blown into each other sometimes, like literally in this movie."
  • Embargoed: 29th April 2002 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAAEQ20USX4I42LY29UQ0AY6KEL
  • Story Text: Richard Gere and Diane Lane took to the red carpet in New York for the premiere of their new film "Unfaithful."
    From the director who brought "Fatal Attraction" and "Indecent Proposal" to the big screen, "Unfaithful" continues Adrian Lyne's study of troubled relationships, examining a perfect marriage that turns out not to be so perfect after all.
    Hollywood stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane were in the Big Apple on Monday (May 6) to attend the premiere of their new film "Unfaithful". Among other attendees, Hillary Swank was on hand to wish the two leads good luck.
    Gere says the role was a study of the human condition..
    "It's an honest exploration of me, you, our friends, everyone we know. People who struggle with growing, making mistakes, having expectations, you know, that can't be fulfilled. Not knowing our dark sides, not knowing how to inform them into the rest of our lives... Major issues for adults," he said.
    Diane Lane attended the premiere, taking time to mingle with attendess and the press. She said she liked the idea of working with the film's director Adrian Lyne and that's why she decided to take the leading role.
    "And I knew that he was going to make a really extraordinary movie out of the screen play that he was going to get all of the emotional depth into something that was not necessarily a new story. But it's a fresh visitation on a classical theme."
    Erik Per Sullivan plays Charlie Sumner, Gere and Lane's son. He attended the premiere also and says he liked the mood on the set. He says there was always someone to play with and he even learned a little something from Gere. "Well he gave me some acting advice and like we hung out and we, I don't know, he's a nice guy.
    Director Lyne takes a cool approach to adultery in "Unfaithful," a film about betrayal and revenge.
    The film released by 20th Century Fox is a refitting of Claude Chabrol's 1968 classic "La Femme Infidele." The modern adaptation is less concerned with suspense and dramatic fireworks than is the usual American "erotic thriller."
    "It's a French film done in American way in a French style. Whatever that means. But it's kind of a mix of European and American styles. I think it's more emotional than most European films are. But I think it still has this kind of existential overlay," the film's Richard Gere told Reuters.
    Leading man Richard Gere is the head of a perfect family, living the perfect suburban life up until he innocently learns that his wife, played by Diane Lane, has lied to him.
    Suspicion propels Gere's character to uncover the devastating details of her infidelity.
    Lane said the film isn't afraid to ask questions and challenge the audience:
    "Adrian has (Adrian Lyne, Director/Producer) has that gift a filmmaker to ask scary questions or have people feel culpable of asking themselves that scary question of would I and would you and how about that and is that a woman's domain or not."
    The film tells the tale of a happy marriage dampened by the routines of affluence, falling pray to an outsider tempting the middle-aged couple. The on screen account focuses on the nuances of how men and woman behave, pretend and lie in deceitful situations.
    Gere receives proof of his wife's infidelity an hour into the film, and the second half of the story is devoted to coping with the consequences. Moral considerations that supersede the wife's extramarital wanderings come into-play, in much the same understated way as they did in the Chabrol original.
    Director Lyne says it's a situation that can certainly happen in real life:
    "It's nice people doing awful things, which I think is interesting. Um, it's a happily married woman being unfaithful for no reason whatsoever. That's what I think is interesting. It's that she doesn't have a crappy marriage, she has a nice marriage, they have a nice kid, a nice house, and every reason not to have an affair. And the truth is that people do have affairs and they're blown into each other sometimes, like literally in this movie."
    Given the directors past big screen success, the subject matter, and the star power, Richard Gere and Diane Lane, the studio is expecting attractive box office activity. It will face some stiff competition soon after its release, however, as "Unfaithful" debuts in North American theaters six days before the next "Star Wars" picture. Until then the film will challenge "Spider Man" at the box office one week after the web spewing super hero broke box office records in North America.
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