Filmed at the actual location the Cobb at Lyme Regis, the splendidly evocative first encounter between Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep in this tragic cinematic romance. Basically he takes a shine to the moody redhead and decides to forego his horny bit of upper-class totty (who is not short of a bob or two) in favour of a bit of how's your father with the impoverished old misery guts who spends all her time sulking around Lyme Regis waiting in vain for the return of the lover who jilted her, the eponymous French Lieutenant.. Both characters deserve all the misery they get cause they are a pair of misguided fuckwits who neither of them recognise they are onto a good thing.
