Based on the brilliant novel by John Fowles, with the screenplay written by Harold Pinter, “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” is both a classic Victorian love story and an ironic look at an age of double-standard morality. Sarah Woodruff’s chance meeting with Charles Smithson, a young man-about-town who subsequently discards his pretty young fiancee in a wave of passion, sets in motion a series of events that disrupts the quiet fishing and seaside village in England, and profoundly affects the lives of its residents.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
306345
Language
English
Audience classification
MA
Subject categories
Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain
Literature → English literature - Film and video adaptations
Sound/audio
Captioned
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)