French Lieutenant's Woman - Meryl Streep - Movies - Fox - 5050070007596 - February 4, 2002
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French Lieutenant's Woman

Meryl Streep

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French Lieutenant's Woman

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 symbolises the almost unconscious perception that however distant a person feels from their repressed Victorian sexuality, it's still connected to them, as Darwin would say.

Media Movies     DVD
Number of discs 1
Released Storbritannien, February 4, 2002
Original release date 1981
EAN/UPC 5050070007596
Label Fox 16174DVD
Genre Drama
Dimensions 124 g   (Weight (estimated))
Region code Region 2   (Europa) Region B   (Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia and Oceania)
Language English  
Cinematographer Freddie Francis
Editor John Bloom
Primary Contributor Jeremy Irons
Primary Contributor Meryl Streep
Producer Geoffrey Helman
Producer Leon Clore
Producer Tom Maschler
Writer Harold Pinter
Writer John Fowles
Skuespiller Jeremy Irons
Skuespiller Meryl Streep
Skuespiller Hilton McRae
Skuespiller Emily Morgan
Skuespiller Charlotte Mitchell

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