Main Cast: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Béatrice Romand, Natalie Delon
Release Year: 1975
Country: FR/UK
Run Time: 115 minutes
Plot
Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman's intricate script for The Romantic Englishwoman credibly explores the notion that a writer can manipulate the people in his life as deftly as he can manipulate the characters in his imagination. The title character Elizabeth, played by Glenda Jackson, is the wife of Lewis (Michael Caine), a novelist. At this point in his life, Lewis thinks in nothing but literary terms: Elizabeth is vacationing in Europe alone, ergo she must be having an affair. Half out of frustration, she confirms her husband's suspicions by romancing German drug dealer Thomas (Helmut Berger). Things get even dicier when Lewis invites Thomas into his home, requesting his technical advice on a screenplay he is working on. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Michel Lonsdale - Swan; Phil Brown - Mr. Wilson; Tom Chatto - Neighbor; David de Keyser - George; René Kolldehoff - Herman; Kate Nelligan - Isabel; Doris Nolan - 2nd Meal-ticket Lady; Norman Scace - Headwaiter; Frances Tomelty - Airport Shop Assistant; Bill Wallis - Hendrik; Lillias Walker - 1st Meal-ticket Lady; Julie Peasgood - New Nanny
Credit
Richard F. Dalton - Associate Producer, Mary Selway - Casting, Ruth Myers - Costume Designer, Anthony Waye - First Assistant Director, Joseph Losey - Director, Reginald Beck - Editor, Richard Hartley - Composer (Music Score), Bob Lawrence - Makeup, Richard Macdonald - Production Designer, Gerry Fisher - Cinematographer, Daniel M. Angel - Producer, Peter Handford - Sound/Sound Designer, Tom Stoppard - Screenwriter, Thomas Wiseman - Screenwriter, Thomas Wiseman - Book Author
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 an ambiguous young man in an elevator which initiates an often bizarre, but extremely mature examination of desire, responsibility and the nature of love.
