{"id":28634,"date":"2025-05-23T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=movies&#038;p=28634"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:45:32","slug":"the-romantic-englishwoman","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/the-romantic-englishwoman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Romantic Englishwoman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pulp writer Lewis Fielding&#8217;s (Michael Caine) wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson), vacationing alone in Baden-Baden, meets a drug courier and gigolo named Thomas (Helmut Berger, a Visconti amanuensis who effervescently exploits his real-life decadent image). The attraction leads, at least in the Bu\u00f1uelian flashes of stream-of-consciousness in the mind of the controlling paterfamilias, to a forbidden relationship. Lewis hires his rival, who claims to be a poet and is hunted by gangsters, as his secretary so he can keep a closer eye on the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The endangerment of the intellectual bourgeois marriage through the influence of a fascinating minor character,&#8221; as Matti Salo described the events, is one of Joseph Losey&#8217;s recurring themes, and the director&#8217;s inherent coldness perfectly complements scriptwriter Tom Stoppard&#8217;s semi-clinical, semi-Pinteresque ardour. This lingering mood piece draws its &#8220;joy&#8221; from dry British satire and bitterly antiseptic comedy, revelling in the visual potential of bleak modern design, enthusiastically varying the passive-aggressive marital sadism of<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Carson McCullers \/ John Huston&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reflections in a Golden Eye<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1941) an<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">d Edward Albee \/ Mike Nichols<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1962) as well as Pasolini&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teorema (<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1968). The elevator, which grows into a &#8220;cage of desire,&#8221; has not been used so intensively in film since the days of Louis Malle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Lauri Timonen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pulp writer Lewis Fielding&#8217;s (Michael Caine) wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson), vacationing alone in Baden-Baden, meets a drug courier and gigolo named Thomas (Helmut Berger, a Visconti amanuensis who effervescently exploits his real-life decadent image).","protected":false},"featured_media":28632,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28634","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-1975-en","filters-35-mm-en","filters-english-dialogue","filters-puhuttu-tai-tekstitetty-suomeksi-en","filters-special-screenings","filters-tekstitetty-ruotsiksi-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Romantic Englishwoman &#8212; 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