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Leave All Fair (1985)
Directed by John Reid
Overview
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield’s, letters and journals. The publisher’s girlfriend Marie (who physically resembles Mansfield) and Murry become friends. Marie gradually learns that Murry not only profited greatly from his publication of Mansfield’s writings, but that as her editor he sacrificed the real Mansfield to his own romantic dream, and even that he published her letters and journals against her expressed wishes.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
John Gielgud | Jane Birkin | Féodor Atkine | Simon Ward | Louba Guertchikoff | Maurice Chevit | Mireille Alcantara | Leonard Pezzino