The French Lieutenant's Woman (2-DVD) R
She was lost from the moment she saw him.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 11, 2015
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Meryl Streep & Jeremy Irons | |
Performer: | Leo McKern, Hilton McRae, Lynsey Baxter, Richard Griffiths, David Warner, Alun Armstrong, Penelope Wilton & Peter Vaughan | |
Directed by | Karel Reisz | |
Edited by | John Bloom | |
Screenplay by | Harold Pinter | |
Composition by | Carl Davis | |
Director of Photography: | Freddie Francis |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[Pinter] came up with something akin to a cinematic equivalent of Fowles' asides and cultural footnotes that peppered the novel -- licking, to some extent, the problems in adapting what many though was an unadaptable book...
USA Today
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A lush period drama that also manages to criticize outmoded patriarchal standards.
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Creative Loafing
The movie is graced by the same unhurried powers of observation as the novel.
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Maclean's Magazine
The period drama is richly textured and acted with intensity by Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and a superior cast.
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Associated Press
Rating: 2.5/4 --
It is ironic that the framing device, which is meant to draw our attention to the constructed nature of it all, doesn't work nearly as well and ultimately fails to derail our enjoyment of that which we're supposed to be questioning.
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The French Lieutenant's Woman" is a beautiful film to look at, and remarkably well-acted.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Nothing is left to chance; which means that the responses of the audience aren't left to chance, either. It was as if something were being put over on us. We were in some obscure way, being cheated. The director had reacted for us in advance.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
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, as Darwin would say.
Keywords:
Mystery
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Love Story
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Recommended
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Infidelity
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Period Piece
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Showbiz
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 65,827
- UPC: 715515154116
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