After spending time with his new neighbors, an aspiring writer realizes they are harboring deep secrets that will forever change him.
A bleak and intense story of a love traingle marred by the conflicting backgrounds of the lovers (especially the woman's experience of the Holocaust) is obviously bound to the novel's specifications, but convinces very much by the power of the strong performances.
Halliwell*: "Glum romantic drama about guilt and retribution, long and uncinematic as well as rather poorly done; but its intentions are doubtless honourable.
Maltin**1/2: "Streep's Oscar-winning performance is the centerpiece (and raison d'être) for this slavishly faithful, but deadeningly slow-moving, adaptation of William Styron's book...Nestor Almendros' camera is in love with Streep, but her stunning characterization can't carry the film alone.'"
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