Leave All Fair (1985)

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Country: France, New Zealand
Genres: Drama
Release: 1986-06-04
Director: John Reid
Writers: Jean Betts , Stanley Harper , Maurice Pons , John Reid
Language: English
Stars: John Gielgud (1904–2000) , Jane Birkin , Jane Birkin , Féodor Atkine , Simon Ward , Louba Guertchikoff , Maurice Chevit , Mireille Alcantara , Léonard Pezzino , Jean Betts , Michelle Bordier
Runtime: 88 min
Awards: 1 nomination
AKA: Leave All Fair (United States of America) , Leave All Fair , Eine Ehe in Briefen , Souvenirs secrets (France, French Republic) , Mansfield (New Zealand) , Unica obsesión (Spain) , 孤独な果実 (Japan)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0089467