Zendaya and Robert Pattinson's wedding is the most uncomfortable you will ever see

Due diligence is an exhaustive investigation or review carried out before a major purchase, investment, or agreement to detect risks, problems, or relevant information, usually conducted within financial, business, or legal frameworks. What is not so common is to activate this audit in a romantic relationship. Can you imagine initiating an informal due diligence on your partner days before getting married? Kristoffer Borgli, yes. In fact, The Affair is a risk analysis that opens up completely by accident, at a dinner between a future husband and wife with the wedding godparents to taste the banquet's fare.

Borgli, the Norwegian filmmaker author of such venomous and unhealthy works as Sick of myself or

Dream Scenario, is a troll of social conventions who poisons the liturgy of the wedding and, incidentally, that of the romantic comedy. We will never know if Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, the bride and groom in this film, lived happily ever after. What we do know is that their wedding was a show as morbid and difficult to watch as a car accident in slow motion.

An anticipated dissection of a future couple's crisis, like a Anatomy of a Fallpreventive, The Affair poses a dilemma: what do you really know about the past of the person with whom you will sign to spend the rest of your life? And he resolves it by filming how a commotion is mounted about it. At times, this film seems like the fierce and twisted remake of Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) that Yorgos Lanthimos, Lars von Trier, or Ruben Östlund could have made. Cinema of cruelty? Not exactly. Because, towards the end, almost like an epilogue, Borgli sides with acceptance: forgiving in a relationship is learning to start from scratch. As long as both parts of the relationship are willing, of course.