The Labyrinthine Betrayals of “Minotaur”
The New Yorker · 13 Nov 2026

The Labyrinthine Betrayals of “Minotaur”

“The Unfaithful Wife” has already inspired a steamy Hollywood remake, “Unfaithful” (2002), by the British director Adrian Lyne. It’s best remembered for Diane Lane’s sensational performance as the inaptly named Constance, a housewife who is flung, by a freakish gust of wind, into the path of her future lover. Desire really is a force of nature. The weather in “Minotaur,” by contrast, is gloomy but unobtrusive; Zvyagintsev’s storms are of a more interior kind.


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