The French Lieutenant's Woman

She was lost from the moment she saw him.

Sinopse

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.

6.4
1981
Released
2h 4m

Meryl Streep

Sarah / Anna

Jeremy Irons

Charles Henry Smithson / Mike

Hilton McRae

Lynsey Baxter

Emily Morgan

Penelope Wilton

Jean Faulds

Charlotte Mitchell

Peter Vaughan

Colin Jeavons

Liz Smith

Patience Collier

John Barrett

Leo McKern

Arabella Weir

Ben Forster

Richard Griffiths

David Warner

Catherine Willmer

Dr. Grogan's Housekeeper

Anthony Langdon

Edward Duke

Graham Fletcher-Cook

Richard Hope

Michael Elwyn

Toni Palmer

Cecily Hobbs

Doreen Mantle

Alun Armstrong

Gérard Falconetti

Joanna Joseph

Jude Alderson

Red Haired Prostitute

Cora Kinnaird

Orlando Fraser

Fredrika Morton

Alice Maschler

Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons on THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN

Status

Released

Original Language

Revenue

$2,689,068.00

Keywords

#adultery
#based on novel or book
#lieutenant
#love
#tragedy
#dorset

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Reviews

@Geronimo196711 months ago

Usually if there are two separate timelines featured in a story, the director tries to ensure that we cannot readily distinguish between one that might be true and one that might be artificial. It's the complete opposite that really works well here as we mingle the story of an 18th century woman living within the constraints of high Victorian society with a more profligate 1970s one. To fit out th