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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 4, 2001
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 7 minutes
Country UK
Studio Juniper Films, United Artists
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Other Titles
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Die Frau des französischen Leutnants (1981)
• Die Geliebte des französischen Leutnants (1981)
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Genre: Drama, Infidelity, Love, Period Piece, Showbiz, Suspense, Culture Clash, Love Triangle
Tagline: She was lost from the moment she saw him.
Plot: In this dramatic film, director Karel Reisz and screenwriter Harold Pinter adapt the complex romantic novel by John Fowles, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. Set in 1867, Sarah Woodrough (Meryl Streep), a beautiful young woman, is condemned by society and driven into a deep melancholy because of her tragic affair with a French lieutenant. Fowles adds depth and texture to the story by including direct historical asides and scientific lessons by Charles Smithson (Jeremy Irons), a wealthy amateur paleontologist and follower of Charles Darwin. In addition, there is a film within the film in which modern-day (1981) characters Anna (Streep) and Mike (Irons) provide comments on the characters they're portraying, and a little history, but primarily provide a parallel story as they enter an adulterous affair of their own. The contrast between the Victorian and the contemporary affairs, at first jarring, is beautifully staged and photographed. Streep's two performances, as the passionate Sarah, with her beautiful head of pre-Raphaelite hair and as the cool, modern Anna, never converge; the distinctness of the division between the two characters symbolizes the almost unconscious perception that however distant a person feels from his repressed Victorian sexuality, it's still connected to him,
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| Directed by |
Karel Reisz
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Sweet Dreams, Who'll Stop the Rain |
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| Written by |
| Harold Pinter
The Handmaid's Tale, The Tailor of Panama, Mansfield Park |
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| Cast |
Meryl Streep
Adaptation., The Deer Hunter, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events |
 | Jeremy Irons
The Lion King, Kingdom of Heaven, Die Hard: With a Vengeance |
 | Leo McKern
Ladyhawke, The Blue Lagoon, A Man for All Seasons |
 | Richard Griffiths
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
 | Hilton McRae
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, Max Headroom | | | |
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| Music By |
Carl Davis
The Phantom of the Opera, Greed, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages |
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