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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
****
Director: Karel Reisz
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern, Hilton MacRae, Emily Morgan

This beautiful and inventive drama offers two parallel love stories, one between an actor and an actress and the other one between the characters they play. Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons are strong in the lead. Adapted from a novel by John Fowles.