Elegant but uninvolving. TWITTER The star-crossed love between married friends (Carice van Houten and Hanna Alström) plays out against decades of political upheaval in an English-language drama from Czechoslovakia. A real-life architectural gem is the centerpiece of The Affair — and, in many ways, its most compelling character. The building is a modernist masterpiece, completed in 1930, when the term "modernist" embodied the thrill of risk-taking in a new age. As in the movie's source material, Simon Mawer's 2009 novel The Glass Room, the house is a hilltop construction of clean geometri...