Released internationally as A Pornographic Affair, An Affair Of Love is a romantic drama that opens with a pair of ex-lovers (Nathalie Baye and Sergi López) recounting how they met through anonymous channels to fulfill Baye's unnamed sexual fantasy. Like the lovers in Last Tango In Paris, Baye and Lopez attempt to have a sexual relationship devoid of emotional attachment, withholding as much information as possible, including their names, occupations, and backgrounds. Like countless lovers before them, however, the two soon find physical and emotional intimacy impossible to keep separate, and stumble into a relationship far more complicated and intense than either envisioned. The original title and premise suggest voyeuristic titillation, but An Affair Of Love delights in defying expectations and subverting conventions, taking the elements of romantic drama and re-assembling them in new and disconcerting ways. Director Frédéric Fonteyne reveals as little information about the lovers as the lovers do to each other, so much of Affair's understated power is derived from its mastery of small details, its grasp of how seemingly insignificant gestures and comments can have life-altering ramifications. López gives an appropriately introverted performance as the more cautious half of the pair, but Baye steals the film as a middle-aged woman who is never as stoic or removed as she feels the need to be. Brief and minor, yet surprisingly resonant, An Affair Of Love understands that between the fluffy fantasies of romantic comedies and the convoluted melodrama of romantic tragedies lie messy, ambiguous real-life relationships that are seldom as predictable as we'd like.