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The Go-Between
Why this pick
A sensual, precisely observed English period drama where class, repression and illicit love gain added force through a framing perspective and an atmosphere of irreversible memory.
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MOVIE1981 2h 4m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film intercuts the stories of two affairs. One is a Victorian period drama involving the gentleman Paleontology Charles Smithson and the complex and troubled Sarah Woodruff, known as "the French lieutenant's woman." The other story is between actors Mike and Anna, playing the lead roles in a modern filming of the story. In both segments, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the lead roles. John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' had multiple endings, and the two parallel stories in the movie have different outcomes.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Meryl Streep
Sarah
Hilton McRae
Sam
Penelope Wilton
Sonia
Patience Collier
Mrs. Poulteney
John Barrett
Dairyman
Arabella Weir
Girl on Undercliff
Ben Forster
Boy on Undercliff
Richard Griffiths
Sir Tom