John Reid

Leave All Fair (Leave All Fair)

Director John Reid Composer Stephen McCurdy Cast John Gielgud, Jane Birkin, Féodor Atkine
Edition 1985
88' - 1985 - Drama - Dialogue: English
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.

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Credits

Directors

John Reid

Composers

Stephen McCurdy

Cast

John Gielgud, Jane Birkin, Féodor Atkine

Scenario

Jean Betts, Stanley Harper, Maurice Pons

Director of Photography

Bernard Lutic

Editors

Ian John

Producers

John O'Shea

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Dialogue

English

Countries of production

New Zealand, France

Year

1985