The French Lieutenant's Woman (Criterion Collection)

Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons. Actors’ lives begin to mirror the movie they are filming about a young man who is intrigued by a mysterious, ostracized woman in Victorian England. Based on John Fowles’s novel and directed by Karel Reisz. Includes digital restoration, interviews with Irons and Streep as well as editor John Bloom and composer Carl Davis, interview on the film with scholar Ian Christie, episode of The South Bank Show featuring the director, the screenwriter and the original author, trailer and essay by film scholar Lucy Bolton. 1981/color/123 min/R/widescreen.