{"id":195157,"date":"2021-03-05T21:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-affair-review-great-architecture-shame-about-the-foundations\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T21:18:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:18:44","slug":"watch-the-affair-review-great-architecture-shame-about-the-foundations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-affair-review-great-architecture-shame-about-the-foundations\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Affair&#8217; Review: Great Architecture, Shame About the Foundations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4100912d753\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4100912d753\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-affair-review-great-architecture-shame-about-the-foundations\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Affair_Review_Great_Architecture_Shame_About_the_Foundations%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Affair&#8217; Review: Great Architecture, Shame About the Foundations&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-affair-review-great-architecture-shame-about-the-foundations\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Affair_Review_Great_Architecture_Shame_About_the_Foundations%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Affair&#8217; Review: Great Architecture, Shame About the Foundations&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Affair_Review_Great_Architecture_Shame_About_the_Foundations%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Affair&#8217; Review: Great Architecture, Shame About the Foundations&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Affair_Review_Great_Architecture_Shame_About_the_Foundations%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Affair&#8217; Review: Great Architecture, Shame About the Foundations&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Simon Mawer\u2019s 2009 historical novel \u201cThe Glass Room\u201d was well-regarded on both sides of the Atlantic, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and seemingly destined to be filmed sooner rather than later. It was, after all, a decades-spanning saga of illicit desire, betrayal and riches-to-rags survival against the shifting backdrop of the Holocaust and the rise of Communism in the former Czechoslovakia. You wouldn\u2019t guess its lofty origins from watching its eventual adaptation as \u201cThe Affair,\u201d and not just because Mawer\u2019s tale is now hidden behind the most generic title imaginable \u2014 as if placed in witness protection, to prevent any parties interested in its former identity from finding it. Despite a fine Continental cast and gleaming production values, Czech helmer Julius \u0160ev\u010d\u00edk has made a muddled, maudlin hash of what ought to have been a sure thing; limping to a U.S. release two years after its European premiere, it\u2019s a film best enjoyed as a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of chic production stills.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the best efforts of Carice van Houten, Hanna Alstr\u00f6m and Claes Bang \u2014 all holding down their respective corners of a low-temperature love triangle in very sharp shoes \u2014 it\u2019s a house that emerges as the main attraction of \u201cThe Affair,\u201d rather as it does in the characters\u2019 tumultuous yet strangely inert lives. Mawer\u2019s novel was set in and around a fictionalized facsimile of Villa Tugendhat, a pioneering modernist stunner in the Czech town of Brno, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in the late 1920s. The building of the house and its decaying progress through several generations (and political persuasions) of occupancy gave the novel its own precise architectural framework.<\/p>\n<p>\u0160ev\u010d\u00edk\u2019s great coup is getting to film in Villa Tugendhat itself, and it\u2019s not an opportunity wasted: Martin \u0160trba\u2019s camera luxuriates in the house\u2019s vast rectangular spaces, polar white even when not flooded in generous, beaming daylight, with its famous, earthy-pink onyx feature wall that blazes gold when the sun hits it just so. In the film\u2019s world, however, this is the Landauer House, designed by haughty German genius Rainer von Abt (Karel Roden) for wealthy newlyweds Liesel (Alstr\u00f6m) and Viktor (Bang), a Jewish automobile magnate, whose marriage is as passionless as it exceedingly well-styled. Liesel instructs the architect to make her \u201ca home true to the age,\u201d and through the glamorous, heedless years of the 1930s, it\u2019s just that \u2014 shown off at many an elegant <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> gathering, where Liesel\u2019s glamorous BFF Hana (van Houten) is invariably in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>In private, Liesel and Hana\u2019s friendship hovers sultrily on the verge of something more, though it\u2019s the more buttoned-up Liesel who keeps pulling back \u2014 all while Viktor grows inordinately interested in their children\u2019s comely refugee nanny (Alexandra Borb\u00e9ly). Such minor marital dramas fade away, however, as Hitler\u2019s influence across the border escalates. Soon Viktor\u2019s company falls prey to Aryanization, and he and Liesel are forced to flee to Switzerland, while Hana (though also married to a Jew) stays behind. The women\u2019s relationship must continue via anguished, frequently disrupted correspondence. As years turn to decades, Hana keeps a close, mournful eye on the house, occupied first as an office for Nazi engineers, before falling progressively into debauched disrepair under the post-war socialist regime.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the longer \u201cThe Affair\u201d trudges on, the harder it becomes to gauge what, if anything, it\u2019s really about. The novel\u2019s clean narrative lines and clear political symbolism crumble in an adaptation that removes multiple load-bearing subplots and secondary characters to center a relatively mild domestic soap opera, and even the telling of that is garbled. Andrew Shaw\u2019s screenplay introduces characters haphazardly, and drops apparently significant plot points with blunt abandon. Viewers are left with the sense of a reassembled <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> that lost several pages in a strong breeze, with only Antoni Komasa-\u0141azarkiewicz and Rupert Vokmann\u2019s overworked, string-heavy score to fill in the gaps.<\/p>\n<p>Even the principal characters are wanly developed, drifting through proceedings with little palpable sense of interior life or conflict. It takes every ounce of van Houten\u2019s innately fierce presence to keep us invested in Hana, a woman who only sporadically seems to remember she has a husband, and is oddly promoted from alluring best-friend figure to protagonist halfway through. Alstr\u00f6m has the reverse problem, battling a character who seems neutralized into vapor the second she sets foot on Swiss soil; Bang, meanwhile, is a distractingly high-end casting choice for such a colorless third wheel. They all look sensational, at least, in Katarina Bielikova\u2019s exquisitely draped, willow-languid period threads, which give those ravishing Tugendhat spaces just the luxe accent an architectural masterpiece (and UNESCO heritage site) deserves. 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