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The Affair | |
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Directed by | Carl Colpaert |
Written by | Carl Colpaert Lisa Larrivee |
Starring | Kelsey Oldershaw Andy Mackenzie Horacio Le Don |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Affair is a 2004 drama film directed by Carl Colpaert and starring Kelsey Oldershaw, Andy Mackenzie, and Horacio Le Don.
Jean (Kelsey Oldershaw) is a bored housewife living in a designer house with her architect husband Paul (Horacio Le Don), a man of success who is so self-centered and controlling that he forgets his relationship obligations to his wife. Jean has residual scars from a traumatic childhood experience and her needs go beyond the wifely role, searching for some degree of excitement, passion and fulfillment not available in her marriage. At a local dance club she meets Viggo (Andy Mackenzie), a bohemian passionate, live for the moment guy who sweeps Jean off her feet in an affair that produces disaster in her marriage.
The film received four Gold Remi awards at the 2004 Worldfest.
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