Download Free The Romantic Englishwoman

Is this the worst film ever made (not including Michael Winner's
re-make of The Big Sleep which was almost a spoof)? It starts
beautifully with Glenda Jackson looking out of a train window over
Germany set to lovely music and then it's all downhill from here on in.
Glenda Jackson looks stunningly beautiful but Wardrobe obviously had no
idea how to dress her in anything that actually suited her, Michael
Caine is rubbish as a jealous husband, no subtlety at all & even
unsubtle characters require a certain subtlety of acting. He is wholly
miscast as an intellectual & a creative type.

Occasional flashes of style but the "plot" is muddled & aimless, the
script poor, the direction & editing are an utter mess. The whole thing
is very 1970s & very difficult to watch without cringing. What an utter
waste of time. A hundred minutes of my life that I'll never get back..

From the film's title and credits, I had assumed it would be a
hysterical melodrama but, in general, I was pleasantly surprised by the
result! As expected from this director, it's a stylish film but not an
easy one: in fact, it's been likened to Alain Resnais' LAST YEAR AT
MARIENBAD (1961) - though it's not quite that mystifying!

Still, the plot does blur the confines which separate fact from
fiction, especially in the way novelist/screenwriter Michael Caine
bases the affair between a man and a woman who meet while on holiday in
a foreign city - and which we see enacted from time to time - on the
one he suspects went on between his wife (Glenda Jackson) and a young
German gigolo (Helmut Berger) in Baden-Baden. The latter, however, is
not as na.