Plenty starring Meryl Streep, John Gielgud
Director: Fred Schepisi

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David Hare's Broadway play--about political idealism and the way some people always need to be fighting for a cause--was credibly transferred to the screen by director Fred Schepisi from Hare's screenplay. Meryl Streep (in the midst of a streak of movies that required accents) plays a British woman who fought for the French Resistance during World War II. When she returns to normal life in post-war England and marries a diplomat, she becomes something of a terror--speaking her mind when, of course, diplomacy dictates otherwise. Did she leave the best part of herself in France, where life was more meaningful and immediate? Hare's comment on Great Britain's post-war slide into Thatcherism, this film features a tough-minded (and not particularly likable) performance by Streep, who is actually quite good. It's a hard movie to embrace, but a well-made one nonetheless.

Synopsis
An exploration of post-World War II European society and its discontents, as symbolized by the shifting emotional and political alliances of one English woman. For Susan Traherne, nothing can match the heroism and excitement of her wartime involvement with the French Resistance; nor can any man match the young soldier with whom she had an affair. Back in England, her youthful optimism slowly fades as she experiments with a variety of political movements and a variety of men. Ultimately she settles into a marriage with an upper-class diplomat that leads to disillusionment and, finally, madness.

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A courageous and impulsive young woman who was a fighter in the French Resistance during the Second World War has great difficulty in adjusting to post-war British life. As usual, Meryl Streep gives a command performance.

 

 

 

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