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A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out against a stunning recreation of the Golden Age of 1920s Paris. In adapting Jean Rhys's 1928 autobiographical novel, Merchant Ivory achieved an artistic breakthrough that remains one of the team's finest works. Isabelle Adjani plays the vulnerable but complicated West-Indian Marya, who, after her shady husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins) is imprisoned, finds shelter in the home of a manipulative and lecherous English art patron (Alan Bates) and his painter wife (Maggie Smith).
Merchant Ivory Productions and Lyric International present ; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; produced by Ismail Merchant and Jean-Pierre Mahot de la Querantonnais ; director, James Ivory.
Alan Bates, Anthony Higgins, Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith.
Originally produced by Cohen Film Collection in 1981.
Director of photography, Pierre Lhomme ; editor, Humphrey Dixon ; original music, Richard Robbins ; costume designer, Judy Moorcroft ; production designer, Jean-Jacques Caziot.