The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
A Victorian novelist researching a story about a mysterious woman who spurned her French lover becomes dangerously entangled with his own leading actress, blurring the line between fiction and reality. Harold Pinter's adaptation of John Fowles' novel plays inventively with dual timelines and questions of authorship and desire.
Director
- Karel Reisz
Cast
- Meryl Streep
- Jeremy Irons
- David Warner
Filming Locations
- Borough Market
- Dart Valley Railway
- Kingswear
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Lyme Regis
Meryl Streep's hooded figure standing on the wind-swept Cobb (the sea wall) at Lyme Regis is the film's most evocative image.
- Shad Thames
- Torbay