Unhealthy Interest





By Rupert Smith
Guardian Unlimited
Last Night's TV
January 19, 2000

(abridged from larger article on other shows)




BBC2's Graham Greene: The Beginning Of The End Of The Affair delved into the murky personal circumstances behind the composition of Greene's 1951 masterpiece. The peg for this illuminating trot through the blasted heath of Greene's psyche is the forthcoming Neil Jordan film of the book, starring Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore as the writer and his lover. The story was closely based on Greene's own relationship with Catherine Walston, a beautiful, restless (and married) American woman; Greene conducted the affair and transmuted it into fiction simultaneously. Walston's son Oliver proved a strangely gung-ho guide to his mother's infidelities. More sensible reactions came from daughter Anne ("I don't like Greene's books") and Walston's sister Belinda, who chastised her nephew for his over-eagerness.

Greene emerged as an endlessly fascinating figure, a Christian who could only feel the full depth of his faith when he was deliberately sinning. The weak links in an otherwise engrossing slice of literary biography were the obligatory interviews with actors, whose opinions on Greene were neither informed nor enlightening. Julianne Moore announced that novelists often use real experiences as the basis for fiction, which came (to her, at least) as a surprise.









 

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