The French Lieutenant's Woman (film) Award for Best Actress, and Pinter for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film intercuts the stories of two affairs. One is a Victorian period drama involving the gentleman palaeontologist Charles Smithson and the complex and troubled Sarah Woodruff, known as "the French lieutenant's woman." The other story is between actors Mike and Anna, playing the lead roles in a modern filming of the story. In both segments, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the lead roles. John Fowles's "The French Lieutenant's Woman" had multiple endings, and the two parallel stories in the movie have different outcomes. In
The Impostor (novel) The Impostor (novel) The Impostor () is a 1927 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. It tells the story of a priest who loses his faith and sets out to rediscover his soul together with an elderly cleric. "Publishers Weekly" wrote in 1999: "Austere, intellectually challenging and, occasionally, achingly poignant in the tradition of French-Catholic mysticism, the novel achieves a certain quiet spiritual triumph, a faith-at-low-ebb form made popular in the English-speaking world by "The Power and the Glory"." "Kirkus Reviews" called the book "An often maddeningly discursive work that, nevertheless, accumulates great power in a devastating portrayal of