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The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 British romantic drama film directed by Karel Reisz, produced by Leon Clore, and adapted by the playwright Harold Pinter. It is based on The French Lieutenant's Woman, a 1969 novel by John Fowles. The music score is by Carl Davis and the cinematography by Freddie Francis .
Oct 16, 1981 · A drama romance film based on John Fowles' novel, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons as actors and characters in a 19th century love story. The film features two parallel plots, two endings, and a melancholic atmosphere.
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- Drama, Romance
- Karel Reisz
- 1981-10-16
A film adaptation of John Fowles's novel that uses parallel stories of Victorian and modern lovers to create ambiguity and irony. Meryl Streep stars as the titular woman, who manipulates the conventions of her era and the film industry.
Leo McKern. Dr. Grogan. Hilton McRae. Sam. Emily Morgan. Mary. Watchlist. Hot Pursuit Unfriended. In this story-within-a-story, Anna (Meryl Streep) is an actress starring opposite Mike (Jeremy...
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- Karel Reisz
- R
- Meryl Streep
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 ...
- Sarah/Anna
The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love.
A film within a film about a Victorian affair and a modern romance. Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons play dual roles as actors and characters in a 19th century story of sexual and social oppression.
