Unfaithful (2002) poster
2002 · thriller · drama · romance

Unfaithful

Directed by Adrian Lyne2h 4m2002
ElsewhereIMDb6.7106kRT51%Metacritic63
  • intense
  • tender
Movie DNA

Neutral, steady, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

Our read · Unfaithful (2002) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded thriller · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a tense adult study of desire, guilt, and a marriage unraveling.

ends devastatingit will wreck youa slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnudity

Skip it tonightInfidelity, explicit sex, or watching with family in the room tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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