Leave All Fair

Leave All Fair is a 1985 New Zealand made film starring John Gielgud as John Middleton Murry the husband of Katherine Mansfield. He is presented as a sanctimonious exploiter of her memory, who illtreated her during their association. Jane Birkin plays both Mansfield in flashbacks and the fictitious Marie Taylor who finds a letter from the dying Mansfield to Murry in his papers.

The film is set in France in 1956,years after the death of Mansfield and a year before Murrys own death. Murry visits Andr de Sarry a fictional French publisher who is about to publish an edition of her collected letters and journals. Murry is presented as struggling with his conscience as he recalls the ill and alone Mansfield seen in flashbacks, and decides to publish almost all of her work.de Sarrys New Zealand partner Marie Taylor reads Mansfields work and among Middleton Murrys papers finds a letter to him from the dying Mansfield. She confronts him as another exploitative male who makes a sanctimonious speech at the book launch. The letter from Mansfield says rather ambiguously ........

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