I had previously watched this film with a poor understanding of the dialogue around 1984, and read the source novel in 1991.
The film tells two parallel stories: the first one is that of a doubly adulterous love affair between two players in a film which is being made; the second story is that which is told in the film in which they are working, a Victorian drama about a disgraced woman and a recently engaged man who falls in love with her.
The contemporary story is banal; the titular one is supposed to emulate Victorian literature, and is preposterous in a slightly entertaining way. One can suppose that the source novel's author deemed writing a parody beneath him, and so coated his tale with an intellectual veneer. Presumably, the cinematic adaptation added the contemporary story so as to imply that present-day love affairs are not that different from past ones. The film is well produced and well directed.
Rating: 48
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