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The French Woman (French: Madame Claude) is a 1977 French drama film directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Françoise Fabian. The film is inspired by the life of French brothel madam Madame Claude. Cast. Françoise Fabian as Madame Claude; Dayle Haddon as Elizabeth; Murray Head as David Evans; Klaus Kinski as Alexander Zakis; Vibeke ...
- $8.6 million
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Claire Duval
- Françoise Fabian
La donna del tenente francese (The French Lieutenant's Woman) è un film del 1981 diretto da Karel Reisz. È il dramma in costume di un amore contrastato, tratto dal romanzo di John Fowles. La chiave di lettura del film è la trovata di proporre un film nel film, ossia le storie parallele dei due attori e dei personaggi che loro interpretano.
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The film intercuts the stories of two romantic affairs. One is within a Victorian period drama involving a gentleman palaeontologist, Charles Smithson, and the complex and troubled Sarah Woodruff, known as "the French lieutenant's woman". The other affair is between the actors Mike and Anna, playing the lead roles in a modern filming of the story. ...
Harold Pinter and Karel Reisz worked on the script in 1979, with Leon Clore as producer, and with whom Reisz regularly worked in their company Film Contracts, formed many years earlier. Leon had produced Reisz' Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment. The film was shot in 1980 on location in Lyme Regis, Dartmouth, Exeter, London docks, and Windermere...
Box office
The film was the second highest-grossing British film for the year with theatrical rentals of £1,244,152, behind Chariots of Fire.
Critical reception
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it "a beautiful film to look at, and remarkably well-acted". Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "an astonishingly beautiful film, acted to the elegant hilt by Meryl Streep as the ultimately unreliable Sarah; Jeremy Irons, who looks a lot like the young Laurence Olivier of Wuthering Heights, as Charles Smithson, and by a cast of splendid supporting actors of the sort that only England seem...
Bibliography
1. Gale, Steven H. (2002). Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2706-8.
Bayer, Gerd (2010). "On Filming Metafiction: John Fowles's Unpublished 'The Last Chapter' and the Road to Postmodern Cinema". English Studies. 91 (8): 893–906. doi:10.1080/0013838X.2010.517301. S2C...Gale, Steven H. (2001). "Harold Pinter's The French Lieutenant's Woman: A Masterpiece of Adaptation". In Gale, Steven H. (ed.). The Films of Harold Pinter. Albany: State University of New York Pres...The French Lieutenant's Woman at IMDbThe French Lieutenant's Woman at Rotten TomatoesThe French Lieutenant’s Woman: A Room of Her Own an essay by Lucy Bolton at the Criterion CollectionCharles Henry Smithson. Leo McKern. Dr. Grogan. Hilton McRae. Sam. Emily Morgan. Mary. Watchlist. Hot Pursuit Unfriended. In this story-within-a-story, Anna (Meryl Streep) is an actress starring...
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4 feb 2021 · Directed by Karel Reisz. Starring Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily MorganBlu-ray (Criterion) https://www.criterion.com/films/28037-the-french...
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Dall'omonimo romanzo di John Fowles. È un "film nel film" nel quale la vicenda dell'infelice Sarah (Streep), messa al bando nell'Inghilterra vittoriana per la sua fugace relazione con un tenente francese, si intreccia con la storia d'amore dell'attrice che, dallo stesso romanzo, sta girando un film. Karel Reisz. Director. John Fowles. Novel.
16 ott 1981 · The French Lieutenant's Woman: Directed by Karel Reisz. With Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan. 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.
