Movies directed by Adrian Lyne
Starting his career as a director of TV commercials, he moved into film by making his debut with the teen drama Foxes (1980), but made his breakthrough film with the musical hit Flashdance (1983) and was later hired to helm Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986). He was nominated for best director at the Academy Awards for Fatal Attraction (1987). His most successful film (so far) is Unfaithful (2002), a remake of 'Claude Chabrol' (qv)'s Femme infidèle, La (1969) which was nominated for best actress ('Diane Lane' (qv)). ...
show all Starting his career as a director of TV commercials, he moved into film by making his debut with the teen drama Foxes (1980), but made his breakthrough film with the musical hit Flashdance (1983) and was later hired to helm Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986). He was nominated for best director at the Academy Awards for Fatal Attraction (1987). His most successful film (so far) is Unfaithful (2002), a remake of 'Claude Chabrol' (qv)'s Femme infidèle, La (1969) which was nominated for best actress ('Diane Lane' (qv)).
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It was a thankless task, putting Vladimir Nabokov’s notorious 1955 novel on the screen. But after Stanley Kubrick’s valiant, inventive and funny attempt in 1961 (which Nabokov himself scripted), why try again? To be fair, this 1997 version isn’t as sacrilegious as it might have been, with the flashy, superficial Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal) at the helm. However, it is Lyne’s bid for artistic “respectability” (the artful shots, the fidelity to the book) that is also the film’s undoing. It looks good, but lacks danger. Despite a compelling, tortured turn from Jeremy Irons as Humbert — and a seductive one from Dominique Swain as Lolita — it’s all a little too cosmetic and soft-focused. Although some might say that makes it even more insidiously controversial.
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Director Adrian Lyne made a big impact in the 1980s with slick but enjoyable erotic dramas such as Nine ½ Weeks and Fatal Attraction. He returns to familiar territory with this remake of Claude Chabrol’s La Femme Infidèle, a tale of adultery and its violent aftermath transplanted to suburban New York. Diane Lane is flung into the path of French super stud Olivier Martinez and embarks on a steamy affair that jeopardises her happy marriage to Richard Gere. But sexual ecstasy comes at a price — at least in an Adrian Lyne film. Gere can smell a rat and engages the services of a private detective. It’s very stylishly executed, both visually (excellent camerawork from The Truman Show’s Peter Biziou) and in the performances of the leads. The only let down is an ambiguous ending, which just smacks of a cop out.
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