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Article: A Film at last does justice to Graham Greene's vision.('The End of the Affair')
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 14, 2000
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Jordan's `End of the Affair' puts God and Greeneland together
Blessings on Neil Jordan! For various reasons, distinguished directors such as Fritz Lang, Carol Reed and Otto Preminger could not pull off what Jordan has now accomplished: He's made an exciting film from a Graham Greene novel that captures not only its setting but its substance.
In "The End of the Affair," Jordan compellingly depicts that strange milieu labeled by literary critics as "Greeneland." It's a dark, sleazy place populated by unattractive characters in flight -- sometimes physical, sometime spiritual, often both. Yet other directors have mastered that part of Greene's vision. ...