The French title -- "Une liaison pornographique" -- may have been more titillating, but "An Affair of Love" is a more apt
description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with the two participants, now broken up, we learn how He (Sergi Lopez) and She (Nathalie Baye) met through a sex magazine personals ad that she placed, wishing to fulfill a long-held sexual fantasy. They stubbornly refuse to tell us what the fantasy was; the camera discreetly waits in the hall when they enter a hotel room to do the deed. The one-time fling becomes a rigorously scheduled weekly event, meeting in a nearby cafe and walking to the same hotel room. Slowly, they develop an actual affinity for one another, and in one important scene, they make love "normally," the way two people in love would do it, without that fantasy thing, whatever it was, getting in the way. A relationship that was supposed to be nothing but sex, and that was supposed to happen only once, is beginning to foster real feelings. But can something that started so strangely ever last?
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