Leave All Fair
1985 · Movie · 90 min. · France
It was only after her death that the work of New Zealand writer, Katherine Mansfield, became well known, thanks to her editor and husband, John Middleton-Murry. She had left New Zealand to travel around France, and she died there from tuberculosis. Thirty three years later, Middleton-Murry is invited to France to approve a new edition of her collected letters and journals, and there he meets a young woman, Marie Taylor (also from NZ) who reminds him strongly of his dead wife. As the two become friends, Marie starts reading old correspondence between Mansfield and her husband, and discovers the true nature of their relationship and that Mansfield's dying wishes regarding her writings have been ignored by the manipulative, and less-than-honest, Middleton-Murry.
Direction John Reid
Cast John Gielgud · Jane Birkin · Feodor Atkine · Simon Ward · Louba Guertchikoff · Maurice Chevit · Mireille Alcantara · Léonard Pezzino
Soundtrack Stephen McCurdy
Screenplay John Reid · Jean Betts · Stanley Harper · Maurice Pons
Cinematography Bernard Lutic
Original title Leave All Fair
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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