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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

Drama | 124 minutes
3,05 123 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 124 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Karel Reisz

Stars: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Hilton McRae

IMDb score: 6,9 (16.533)

Releasedate: 28 August 1981

The French Lieutenant's Woman plot

"She was lost from the moment she saw him."

A film crew is shooting the movie 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'. The film is about a 19th century woman abandoned by a lieutenant who begins a romance with a young biologist. The actor and actress who play the two lovers in the film also get into a relationship 'in reality' and their romance begins to show parallels with the romance from the film.

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scorsese

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Nice film in which a woman starts a relationship with a man who is engaged. A film within a film where the editing ensures that you look at the story that takes place in the 19th century in a different way. Beautiful shots along the English coast and also excellent acting. However, it is a bit long-winded and the ending is also a bit disappointing.

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Roger Thornhill

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Promising but mediocre. The historical story is somewhat corny, the modern story has little substance, and the psychological sketch of Sarah (i.e. Streep in 1867) leaves me with so many questions that the original admiration for the many possible interpretations of her character turns into annoyance at the obscurity of her motives: for me she is not so much fascinating-mysterious as created-murky (Charles: "But why did you say that you had given yourself to him [the French lieutenant of the title]?" Sarah: "I don't know..." and don't ask any questions!). Too bad, because the setting and game are perfectly fine. Small role for David Warner, who had his big breakthrough 15 years earlier in Morgan: a suitable case for treatment by the same director, but who will now be best known as Spicer Lovejoy, Hockley's rough servant who plays Jack riveted to a pipe in Titanic.
It's strange that there are so few messages about this: this is a film with quite a reputation that was talked about a lot at the time, and moreover, these are the first real film leading roles for Streep and Irons, but somehow I never saw this film. revised more until I recently came across it at the thrift store.

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Lovelyboy

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I took the gamble because I thought I remembered that the film had done well at the Oscars, and that turned out to be the case, but it turns out that this is no guarantee for a good film, just like a year earlier with the spermicidal Chariots of Fire as best movie.

Still, the idea may well be there with the love relationship within a love relationship, where you first have to think about what is in the film and outside the film. In addition, the production looks promising with the locations, villages, the pier in the sea, the era with industry, warehouses, trade and carriages. In that respect, time has been taken for this production. Then of course there is the cast with an always good Irons, what a charisma that man has, and Streep who was nominated, not entirely without reason. Then there are some nice moments of drama and tragedy in combination with music.

But it is all not enough in a film that is otherwise deadly boring, has no progress in terms of pace and above all does not want to captivate. And that's quite a shame because there is certainly something about the tragedy of life, love and transience. People come and go and connection fades as a person changes, sometimes faster than we want. But as already mentioned, The French Lieutenant's Woman is too much of a bland piece and therefore something that does not catch on. Anyway, checked off again and on to the next film.

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