The Romantic Englishwoman

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1975 British film

The Romantic Englishwoman

original film poster

Directed by| Joseph Losey
Written by| Tom Stoppard
Thomas Wiseman
Produced by| Daniel M. Angel
Starring| Michael Caine
Glenda Jackson
Helmut Berger
Cinematography| Gerry Fisher
Edited by| Reginald Beck
Music by| Richard Hartley

Production
companies

Dial Films
Les Productions Meric-Matalon

Distributed by| Fox-Rank

Release date

| 19 May 1975

Running time

| 115 minutes
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English
Budget| £784,476[1]
Box office| £844,198[1]

The Romantic Englishwoman is a 1975 British film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Helmut Berger. It marks the feature-length screen debut for Kate Nelligan. The screenplay was written by Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman, based on the novel by the same title by Thomas Wiseman.

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 a mysterious young man, played by Berger, in an elevator, which initiates an often bizarre, but extremely mature examination of desire, responsibility and the nature of love.

The film was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, but not entered into the main competition.[2]

## Plot[edit]

Elizabeth, bored wife of Lewis, a successful pulp writer in England, leaves husband and child and runs away to the German town of Baden-Baden. There she meets Thomas, who claims to be a poet but whom viewers know to be a petty thief, conman, drug courier, and gigolo. Though the two are briefly attracted to each other, she returns home. He, hunted by gangsters for a drug consignment he has lost, follows her to England. Lewis, highly suspicious of his wife, invites the young man to stay with them and act as his secretary. Initially resenting the presence of the handsome stranger, Elizabeth one night starts an affair and, after being caught together in the conservatory by Lewis, the two run away with no money to the south of France. Lewis follows them, he in turn being followed by the gangsters looking for Thomas. At the end the gangsters reclaim Thomas, presumably for execution, while Lewis reclaims Elizabeth.

## Cast[edit]

* Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth Fielding
* Michael Caine as Lewis Fielding
* Helmut Berger as Thomas
* Michael Lonsdale as Swan, chief gangster
* Béatrice Romand as Catherine, nanny
* Kate Nelligan as Isabel, friend of the Fieldings
* Nathalie Delon as Miranda
* Reinhard Kolldehoff as Herman
* Anna Steele as Annie
* Marcus Richardson as David
* Julie Peasgood as New Nanny
* Frankie Jordan as Supermarket Cashier
* Tom Chatto as Neighbour
* Frances Tomelty as Airport Shop Assistant

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 357. Income is distributor's receipts, combined domestic and international, as at 31 Dec 1978.
2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Romantic Englishwoman". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 May 2009.

## External links[edit]

* The Romantic Englishwoman at IMDb
* The Romantic Englishwoman at Rotten Tomatoes

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Films directed by Joseph Losey

* The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
* The Lawless (1950)
* M (1951)
* The Prowler (1951)
* The Big Night (1951)
* Stranger on the Prowl (1952)
* The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
* A Man on the Beach (1955)
* The Intimate Stranger (1956)
* Time Without Pity (1957)
* The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958)
* Blind Date (1959)
* The Criminal (1960)
* Eva (1962)
* The Damned (1963)
* The Servant (1963)
* King and Country (1964)
* Modesty Blaise (1966)
* Accident (1967)
* Boom! (1968)
* Secret Ceremony (1968)
* Figures in a Landscape (1970)
* The Go-Between (1971)
* The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
* A Doll's House (1973)
* Galileo (1975)
* The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
* Monsieur Klein (1976)
* Roads to the South (1978)
* Don Giovanni (1979)
* The Trout (1982)
* Steaming (1985)

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List of awards and nominations

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* The Romantic Englishwoman
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