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title: "The Romantic Englishwoman"
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# The Romantic Englishwoman

**Brand:** michael caineglenda jacksonjoseph losey
**Price:** € 1.90
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Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson star in this psychological drama adapted from the novel by Thomas Wiseman. Whilst suffering with writer's block, successful novelist Lewis Fielding (Caine) suspects his discontented wife Elizabeth (Jackson), who is holidaying alone in Baden Baden, of having an affair. Frustrated with her husband's jealousy and attempts to manipulate her, Elizabeth confirms Lewis's suspicions and embarks on a steamy affair with handsome young German Thomas (Helmut Berger), who claims to be a poet but is in fact a drug dealer. Fact and fiction grow evermore entwined when, after Elizabeth's return to England, Lewis invites Thomas into his home to ask for his thoughts on the screenplay he is trying to write. It isn't long before Thomas is not only Lewis's technical advisor but also an integral part of the plot...

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Romantic Englishwoman viewed
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 December 2015*

A good, if not very great Joseph Losey fiml, which was new to us. It is forty years old, so it was not really surprising that there were no subtitles.  I 'm glad to have seen it .

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Disappointing, especially considering the pedigree
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2010*

On paper, the credentials of this 1975 movie are very strong.  Script by one foremost playwright Tom Stoppard; one of the finest directors of noir-ish unease, Joseph Losey, working with regular collaborators Gerry Fisher (camera) and Reginald Beck (editor); two real heavyweights, Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson, as the leads.  However, it has to be said that the film really doesn't live up to its credentials.The story is complex.  Elizabeth Fielding (Jackson) leaves her writer husband Lewis (Caine) temporarily and retreats to Baden-Baden where she may or may not have had an affair with drug-runner and gigolo Thomas (Helmut Berger).  Alternatively, it's her fantasy, or yet again Lewis's fantasy about her.  However, Thomas is real, because he turns up on the doorstep and scrounges into their married life, eventually having the affair which Lewis believed had taken place all along.  Marital bust-up is resolved when Thomas' past catches up with him and he's taken away by some gangsters who will probably kill him, and Lewis takes his wife back.The central problem is in the writing, or maybe the plot of the original novel: the premise - a kind of  "Last Year in Baden-Baden" - is much more interesting than the resolution, as the film turns progressively into a conventional thriller which fails to thrill.  The reason for the hounding of Thomas is particularly fatuous.  I think Pinter, another regular Losey  collaborator, would have made a much more interesting, and less talkative, version by concentrating on the Resnais-like ambiguities of the triangle relationship, and teasing out the fantasy/reality aspects.The acting somehow also fails to gel, and I think this is down to central miscasting.  Jackson is a very fine actress, but romantic she is not.  Her intelligence is too formidable for us to believe she would fall for this egotistical wastrel, especially when played as blandly as it is by Berger.  Julie Christie we would believe, Glenda - no. There is also a kind of distance in Caine too.  His early work is perhaps best symbolised by the trademark black-rim glasses, which create a barrier between the viewer and the actor.  It's only in later films he becomes good at emotion - his great strength as a star earlier is reticence.  Here he is required to do obsession, and he's not quite up to it, although he is very good at anger, and his pointless explosion at the feminist friend, Isabel, is one of the highlights of the film.Losey directs with his usual elegance and precision.  The film is full of mirrors and shots of people reflected in glass, appropriate to the theme.  The hotel location is particularly well used - vast ornate oppressive public spaces, elsewhere endless corridors and anonymous rooms from which people make meaningless entrances and exits.  But it all feels a little mannered, making all the right moves but without the passion - even passionate disgust - of Losey's early movies.  Curiosity value only.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great film
  

*by Y***M on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 August 2018*

Great story, great acting great directing. What is there not to like about it?

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