The French Lieutenant's Woman

About The French Lieutenant's Woman

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well.

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 history romance film directed by Karel Reisz. At 124 minutes long, it arrived in August 1981.

Its themes are adultery, tragedy, lieutenant, and dorset. It is adapted from a novel.

Meryl Streep appears as Sarah, Jeremy Irons as Charles Henry Smithson, Hilton McRae as Sam, and Lynsey Baxter as Ernestina. The screenplay is by Harold Pinter. In the United States it streams on MGM+ Amazon Channel, MGM Plus, and MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel.

Manhattan, Jules and Jim, and Feast of Love make useful companions to The French Lieutenant's Woman, all filed under love. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 248 votes and it carries a R rating.