The French Lieutenant's Woman
She was lost from the moment she saw him.
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Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$2 689 068
Director
Actors
Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Lynsey Baxter, Emily Morgan, Penelope Wilton, Jean Faulds, Charlotte Mitchell, Peter Vaughan, Colin Jeavons
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Leon Clore
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Assheton Gorton
Audition
Patsy Pollock
Editing
John Bloom
Whole Team (36)
Whole Team (36)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the original novel (1969) by John Fowles (1926-2005), a secondary plot and characters present in the film are absent. It contains three alternative endings, from which the reader is invited to choose the one that suits them best. The creation of two parallel storylines allowed the filmmakers to show two versions of the ending – a happy one and a tragic one.
- Meryl Streep practiced her British pronunciation daily with a linguist and arrived in the UK three months before filming began to further refine it.
- John Fowles, the author of the original novel, disliked the film adaptations of his two previous novels, 'The Collector' (1963) and 'The Magus' (1965). Both of these novels were adapted for the screen before Fowles' third novel, 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', was published, so this time the writer insisted on the right to choose the director for the adaptation himself. His choice fell on Karel Reisz (1926-2002).
- Screenwriter and director Karel Reisz (1926-2002) saw Jeremy Irons in some British television production and immediately cast him in the film.
- Based on the military prose of Vasily Bykov.
- Based on the war prose of Vasil Bykov.
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