The Romantic Englishwoman

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Time Out says

'Return to Losey Country' might be a more suitable title for The Romantic Englishwoman, in which Caine plays a prestigious novelist whose wife (Jackson) feeds his jealous fantasies by slipping off to Baden Baden for the weekend. The two play out their trapped games, prior to a highly romanticised intrusion from Helmut Berger, amid an opulence so mannered and preposterous that it verges on self-parody; in fact, the familiar icy excess of Richard MacDonald's set matches the pomposity of the characters. Most of the film is passably entertaining, and Tom Stoppard's dialogue has its moments, but the basic material contains less that is real or relevant about it than the flimsiest of romantic melodramas.

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Release details

UK release:

1975

Duration:

116 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Joseph Losey

Cast:

Béatrice Romand, Michel Lonsdale, Rene Kolldehoff, Kate Nelligan, Marcus Richardson, Helmut Berger, Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Nathalie Delon

Music:

Richard Hartley

Art Director:

Richard MacDonald

Editor:

Reginald Beck

Cinematography:

Gerry Fisher

Screenwriter:

Tom Stoppard, Thomas Wiseman

Producer:

Daniel M Angel

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Rated as: 5/5 (1 rating)

  • Oh dear, poor Time Out. This film is a classic. Watch it for yourself and ignore jealous critics.

    Leonard Davies Wed Nov 28 2007
    Rated as: 5/5
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