My 150 Favorite Movies - #17
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
The French Lieutenant's Woman takes a novel approach to adapting the metafictional novel, and brings it to the big screen by making it a movie within a movie. In line with the source material having two different endings, the screenplay, by Harold Pinter, adapted from the novel by John Fowles, intercuts between two love affairs, between the 19th-century characters in the novel, played by Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons at his most swoon-worthy, and the "actors" (also played by Streep and Irons) portraying these characters. A mesmerizing film, from beginning to end.
The French Lieutenant's Woman takes a novel approach to adapting the metafictional novel, and brings it to the big screen by making it a movie within a movie. In line with the source material having two different endings, the screenplay, by Harold Pinter, adapted from the novel by John Fowles, intercuts between two love affairs, between the 19th-century characters in the novel, played by Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons at his most swoon-worthy, and the "actors" (also played by Streep and Irons) portraying these characters. A mesmerizing film, from beginning to end.
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