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...ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN is a minor but interesting contribution to the growing number of films about upper-middle-class fears and fantasies, particularly those related to sex and marriage. This film treats some of the same discontents as Scenes from a Marriage or Sunday, Bloody Sunday, but it is closer in conception to something like The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, which makes more sense on the psychological than the plot level. Unfortunately, it lacks the fanciful and humorous elements of Discreet Charm, but it has a few ideas of its own to offer...
...sensitive, slow-paced direction of Joseph Losey is well suited to a film that operates more on the level of fear and fantasy than of realistic plot development. The Romantic Englishwoman is extremely well-edited, revealing aspects of the story almost impossible to capture in another medium. In Baden, for example, the gigolo follows the wife from a casino to her hotel. As she reaches the lobby, the telephone is ringing--it is her husband, calling to check up on her for the nth time. She is annoyed, and short with him: "The lift is here. Good-bye." She gets...
...school in Paris sponsored by Child, fellow cookbook Authors James Beard and Simone ("Simca") Beck, and other gurus of gastronomy on both sides of the Atlantic. What sets La Varenne apart from any other school of la cuisine classique in France is that it is run-efficiently-by an Englishwoman, Anne Willan-and it is the first full-scale school to offer lessons in English as well as French. Without mincing any mots, the well-financed academy has set out to challenge the haughty Cordon Bleu, the 80-year-old citadel of French culinary tradition that has become a synonym...
Such claustrophobic scenes are played and replayed as conscience chews at guilt in the minds of several British characters who serve as Scott's observers. One incident is central and obsessive. In 1942, at a shabby spot in Ranpur called the Bibighar Gardens, a young Englishwoman named Daphne Manners and her Indian lover, Hari Kumar, are beaten by a gang of six Indians drunk on illegal homemade liquor...
Perversion and Prejudice. An English policeman named Merrick, who also had his eye on Daphne, arrests six Indians and Kumar. A jealous Merrick assumes that the Englishwoman was the victim of a rape organized by Kumar. But when Miss Manners says that Merrick has the wrong men and refuses to testify, a conviction is impossible. Still it is clear to the English community that Merrick has done his job well, and there is no outcry when he manages to have Kumar and his friends imprisoned as political unreliables. The Japanese, after all, have just defeated the English in Burma...