The French Lieutenant's Woman [VHS]

The French Lieutenant's Woman [VHS]
by Karel Reisz

The French Lieutenant's Woman [VHS]
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Actor: Charlotte Mitchell, Emily Morgan, Hilton McRae, Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep
Director: Karel Reisz
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 124 minutes
Release Date: 1995-06-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

VHS Movie Reviews of The French Lieutenant's Woman [VHS]

Movie Review: sort of a neo-classic
Summary: 4 Stars

This movie mixes two tales: one modern and one antique.
The tale of a branded scarlet woman of the 19th century in parallel with a modern affair of the two married actors. The harder one is in the modern life version than the happy ending of the of the movie
with requited and unrequited love.
This movie is the one that made Meryl Strep's deserved reputation as an actress.

Summary of The French Lieutenant's Woman [VHS]

Writer Harold Pinter (Betrayal) and director Karel Reisz (Isadora) take an experimental spin with John Fowles's magnificent novel set in Victorian England, and come up with something puzzling. Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the forbidden lovers in Fowles's story, but in a parallel story line they also play contemporary actors performing those characters in a movie production and having an affair of their own during off-hours. Got that? Considering that Fowles himself presents alternative endings in his novel, something equally eccentric is called for here. But little is accomplished by this intertwining of a fictional past and present, and the opportunity to do justice to a great story is lost. On the plus side, Irons and Streep are instantly striking as a natural couple on screen, and their presence makes watching this film easy enough despite the larger problems. --Tom Keogh

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