It also represents a change in his narrative strategy, telling the same events from multiple perspectives and punctuating the drama by an authorial voice that shifts from character to character, providing threads of an intriguing puzzle that viewers can fit into a coherent whole. In sharp opposition to other major writer-directors, it’s hard to separate Jordan the scripter from Jordan the filmmaker, for his best films (“The Miracle”) are informed by an alert intelligence that can transform a uniquely British historical romance, such as “End of the Affair,” into a highly cinematic, truly modern and universal experience.Ī most personal novel by Greene, “End of the Affair” is subtler and more sympathetic in treating religious themes than his other spiritual novels. With 12 pictures now under his belt, Jordan proves again that he is a supreme storyteller of complex human dramas, be they based on original scripts (“The Crying Game”) or literary adaptations (“The Butcher Boy”).
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