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For all its heartbreak and betrayal, this Czech-set drama is inert.

Two wives are drawn together by an erotic undertow in the ultimately frustrating 'Affair' Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post March 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3of3 An interesting but ultimately frustrating struggle between form and content animates "The Affair," an attractive but inert drama set in Czechoslovakia amid the most pivotal events of the 20th century. Hanna Alstrom and Carice van Houten play Liesel and Hana, best friends whose relationship possesses an undeniably erotic undertow, even after they're both married. In Liesel's case, the man in question is Viktor Landauer (Claes Bang)...

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...

Watch Carice Van Houten, Hanna Alstrom in The Affair's Sapphic Trailer The period drama is sensuous and heartbreaking. February 04 2021 9:10 AM EST If you're a fan of lesbian period dramas, we've got news for you: the niche genre is growing yet again. Set against the backdrop of the 1930s Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, The Affair stars Kingsman franchise's Hanna Alstrom as Liesel Landauer. She, along with her husband Viktor Landauer, played by Claes Bang, is filled with optimism and happiness in their new home, which is a city landmark given that within it is a much-famed "glass room." Bu...