The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

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7	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Karel Reisz

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Meryl Streep
Sarah and Anna

Jeremy Irons
Charles and Mike

Hilton McRae
Sam

Emily Morgan
Mary

Charlotte Mitchell
Mrs. Tranter

Lynsey Baxter
Ernestina

Peter Vaughan
Mr. Freeman

Colin Jeavons
Vicar

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John Fowles
(novel)

Harold Pinter
(screenplay)

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A good movie

7 years, 11 months ago at May 24 9:42

johanlefourbe

To be honest, I had no idea what this movie was about so I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the damned thing but since I’m a huge fan of Meryl Streep, I was quite eager to check it out. What makes this movie interesting is that it mixes 2 dramas, a modern one and a period piece, involving somehow the same people but not exactly the same characters. I know, it sounds rather confusing but,... read more

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5 years, 7 months ago at Aug 26 15:44

fernando

Great story, the grat character is not this strange not too fascinating for everybody but for Irons, who descends and elavates to amour fou

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Description: An astounding array of talent came together for the big-screen adaptation of John Fowles’s novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfilmable. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prize–winning playwright Harold Pinter, British New Wave trailblazer Karel Reisz transforms Fowles’s tale of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter’s reimagining, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep star in parallel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and as the contemporary actors playing those r ... (more)

Release date: 16 October 1981
UPC: 027616866653

Tags: Drama (8), Romance (6), (3), Based On Novel (3), Cockney Accent (2), Behind The Scenes (2), 1981 (2), Melancholy (2), Lieutenant (2), Actress (2), 19th Century (2), 1970s (2), Film In Film (2), Self Destructiveness (2), England (2), Love (2), Actor (1), Sort (1), Male Female Relationship (1)

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