The End of the Affair

9/19/2026

**Film: The End of the Affair** **Director:** Neil Jordan **Adapted from:** *The End of the Affair* **Release date:** 11 February 2000 (UK) **Story by:** Graham Greene **Starring:** Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea. **Review by: Dr Usman Latif Khawaja** The movie brings themes of religion, adultery, faith and carnal love intelligently to the screen without making a cliché of a melodramatic love story where a spouse is cheating on her rather indifferent, cold-blooded, bureaucratic husband in a discreet affair. Set in the turbulent London West End during World War II, the movie is almost as calm as the Blitz is otherwise, and the rapture of the two lovers almost makes a perfect adaptation of the complex Graham Greene book, translating spiritually onto the