The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)

Directed by

Joseph Losey

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom, France

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

R

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A successful English novelist has a discontented wife who goes on a holiday to Germany. There she meets a mysterious young man in an elevator, leading to a story about desire and responsibility.

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What happens

The Romantic Englishwoman (French: Une Anglaise romantique, lit. 'A Romantic Englishwoman') is a 1975 crime drama film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Helmut Berger, Michael Lonsdale, and Kate Nelligan in her feature-length screen debut. The screenplay was written by Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman, based on the latter's 1971 novel. Caine plays a successful English novelist whose discontented wife, played by Jackson, decides to take a holiday to Germany in order to "find herself". There she meets a mysterious young man, played by Berger, in an elevator, which initiates an often bizarre, but extremely mature examination of desire, responsibility and the nature of love. A British and French co-production, the film was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, but not entered into the main competition. It received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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