The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep embrace closely, wrapped in a patterned shawl, in a scene from the film The French Lieutenant's Woman.

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

film by Reisz [1981]

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  …methods of the cinema (The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1981; Adaptation, 2002; Carol, 2015). Numerous directors have explored literature in an almost documentary manner. The artifice of the French director Eric Rohmer’s Die Marquise von O. (1976), for example, aptly expresses the literary sensibility of Heinrich von Kleist’s romantic, ironic…
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  …methods of the cinema (The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1981; Adaptation, 2002; Carol, 2015). Numerous directors have explored literature in an almost documentary manner. The artifice of the French director Eric Rohmer’s Die Marquise von O. (1976), for example, aptly expresses the literary sensibility of Heinrich von Kleist’s romantic, ironic…
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- Harold Pinter
  …for The Last Tycoon (1976), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), the screen version of his own play Betrayal (1983), The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), and Sleuth (2007). Pinter was also a noted poet, and his verse—such as that collected in War (2003)—often reflected his political views and involvement in numerous causes.…
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  …for The Last Tycoon (1976), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), the screen version of his own play Betrayal (1983), The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), and Sleuth (2007). Pinter was also a noted poet, and his verse—such as that collected in War (2003)—often reflected his political views and involvement in numerous causes.…
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