FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1981
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: 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 tale of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter's reimagining, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep star in parallel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and as the contemporary actors playing those roles in a film production, and immersed in their own forbidden affair. Shot by the consummate cinematographer Freddie Francis and scored by the venerated composer and conductor Carl Davis, this is a beguiling, intellectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in early leading roles.;
• Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell, Lynsey Baxter, Jean Faulds, Peter Vaughan, Colin Jeavons, Liz Smith, Patience Collier, John Barrett, Leo McKern, Arabella Weir, Ben Forster, Catherine Willmer, Anthony Langdon, Edward Duke, Richard Griffiths, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Richard Hope, Michael Elwyn, Toni Palmer, Cecily Hobbs, Doreen Mantle, David Warner, Alun Armstrong, Gérard Falconetti, Penelope Wilton, Joanna Joseph, Jude Alderson, Cora Kinnaird, Orlando Fraser, Fredrika Morton, Alice Maschler, Harriet Walter, Michael Dickins, Georgina Hale, Vicky Ireland, Janet Rawson, Clare Travers-Deacon, Karel Reisz, John Fowles, Harold Pinter, Leon Clore, Freddie Francis, John Bloom, Carl Davis, Don Sharpe, Assheton Gorton
• Director: Karel Reisz
• Runtime: 2:03
• Company: United Artists Pictures Inc., Juniper Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie