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“Richard Quine is an odd choice for a marital infidelity soap opera. This material feels better suited to numerous other directors, not Quine’s more comedic strengths. Instead of bringing any energy into the material, Quine plays everything straight, and Strangers When We Meet is a bit of a pretty-but-empty slog about two neighbors engaged in an affair. I wonder what acerbic undertones and bits of humor a director like Douglas Sirk could inject into the proceedings, because there’s only surface-level introspection here. There’s no deeper examination of suburban ennui or the culture at large here, just a sudsy story of a beautiful, frigid blonde goddess trapped in a sexless marriage who engages in an affair with an older man who isn’t unhappy at home, but adrift in his career. T” read more
