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  1. 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 .

  2. Oct 16, 1981 · The French Lieutenant's Woman: Directed by Karel Reisz. With Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan. Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.

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    • Drama, Romance
    • Karel Reisz
    • 1981-10-16
  3. “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” is a beautiful film to look at, and remarkably well-acted. Streep was showered with praise for her remarkable double performance, and she deserved it. She is offhandedly contemporary one moment, and then gloriously, theatrically Victorian the next.

  4. Rated 2/5 Stars • 08/07/23 Rated 4/5 Stars • 04/22/23. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) would earn Meryl Streep her third acting Oscar nomination. The film would reconstruct the book it ...

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    • Karel Reisz
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    • Meryl Streep
  5. Tom Rand. 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 ...

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  6. The decision made by Writer and Director Edith Ritchie and Screenwriter Harold Pinter was to frame Fowles' basic plot within a "modern" context of their own making. While we watch as Sarah, a nineteenth century Englishwoman ruined by an affair with a French Lieutenant, enters into another disastrous relationship with principled young Charles ...

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  8. 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. The novel builds on Fowles' authority in Victorian literature, both ...

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