Title from sell sheet. Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern. Based on the novel "The French lieutenant's woman" by John Fowles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. Widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio). Speical features: New 2K digital restoration; New introduction by scholar Ian Christie; New interviews; Trailer; An essay by film scholar Lucy Bolton.
Summary:
A parallel narrative of a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and of the contemporary actors cast in those roles and immersed in their own forbidden affair.
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