If you think all foreign movies are good, go see this one and be disillusioned. "L'Affaire" is as trite, heavy-handed, and contrived as the worst of domestic productions.
It is about a French district attorney whose wife caries on a forty-eight hour affair with a pianist she has met on a train. There is some nuzzling in the rain, a great deal of obtrusive, Rachmaninofflike music, and the D. A. gets his wife back in the end.
This, of course, is more or less a Gallic rehash of "Brief Encounter," a movie that was effective in its plain, believable, and studiously underplayed plot. "L'Affaire" on the other hand, relies on all sorts of accidents and coincidence to push along its story line, and is not believable at all. Both movies sell the same moral: adultery can be fun but there's no place like home. With a quick flick of its subtitles "L'Affaire" could just as easily prove the converse.
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