The film is adapted from the 1969 best-selling novel of the same name by British writer John Fowles, "The French Lieutenant's Woman". Since this novel came out, it has attracted
Many film directors tried to put it on the screen. However, faced with the problem of how to grasp multiple narrative frames and open endings (three completely different story endings), directors such as Fred Zinnemann, Richard Lester, and Mike Nichols ) And so on. Ten years later, British director Carol Reitz and screenwriter Harold Pinter cleverly used the "film-in-film" layer structure to successfully solve this problem. Pinter first deleted a large number of discrete "modern people" narrations in the original work, and dramatically strengthened and refined the love story that took place in the British Victorian era; at the same time, it added a modern and concrete story that was as real and concrete as the 19th century love story. The love story uses the image of two modern people to contrast with the image of ancient times.
