"....She be no lady,
She be a French Lieutenants Whore....."
a much younger Meryl Streep, in 1969 film The French Lieutenants Woman, explores the life of a disgraced woman who was supposedly abandoned by a French naval officer who she was having an affair with. it is quite an ambiguous film, it deals with the notion of gender as perceived by upper middle class people of the 19th century. the use of the coat, in the costuming of the film is interesting in the way the character of Meryl Streep dresses in her coat, the coat is over powering and dominating, similar to the society in which she lives in, ironically she is wrapped and hidden amongst the thickness of this coat, and although it is almost controlling her it is protecting her from the violent wind...
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