French Lieutenant’s Woman

Based on the novel by John Fowles, this period drama moves between the 19th and 20th centuries in the tale of a man who is prepared to give up everything in his obsessional love for a the beautiful and enigmatic Sarah was past is inescapable., Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike’s character is engaged. After a short, passionate affair, Anna’s melancholy character leaves Mike. During the shooting of the film, the two actors go through a relationship that runs parallel to that of their characters, in this slick written movie that features top acting performances by Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons., Adapted from the John Fowles’ novel by Harold Pinter, the film details the scandalous romance between a gentleman and a ‘tainted’ woman in Victorian England and its effect on two contemporary actors who are filming the couple’s story., The complex romance between two actors mirrors that of their fictional roles in this imaginative adaptation of the John Fowles novel., The romance between two actors is as intense and complex as their fictional, on-stage relationship. This is an adaption of the John Fowles novel., Karel Reisz’s film, based on John Fowles’ novel, with an Oscar-nominated script by Harold Pinter, stars Oscar-nominated Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons in two separate love stories separated by 100 years. In the first, Streep plays Sara Woodruff, a solitary figure living in Lyme Regis whose reputation is ruined by her affair with a French officer who abandons her. Into her life comes Charles Smithson , a visiting biologist, who is intrigued by the air of mystery and sadness that surrounds her. In contrast, the two actors also play Anna and Mike, stars of a film of The French Lieutenant’s Woman , who embark on a passionate but casual affair. Using each affair to reflect the social morals of the time, Pinter’s script unravels the complexities of Fowles’ novel and with stunning performances from the two leads and superb cinematography by the award-winning Freddie Francis, Reisz’s film is now considered a classic of British cinema., Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep star in this period drama which tells the passionate tale of an affair between a well respected biologist and a social outcast., Actors shooting a film in the 1970s have a relationship that parallels the roles of the Victorian lovers they are portraying., Drama mixing a Victorian tale of love and disgrace with a film-within-a-film story of two actors falling for each other. 19th-century scientist Charles finds passion with lovelorn Sarah, while Mike and Anna wade through a very modern affair.