[on the possibility of casting
Charlotte Rampling in
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) under
Fred Zinnemann's direction] We went to see
The Night Porter (1974) in Audley Square- Fred had it run so that we could see Charlotte Rampling. A very sick film; playing on female bondage and Nazi sadism--the others would have walked out, but I took a sort of natural interest in it, since so many values were being trotted out. The girl herself has a very striking face, slightly gaunt, with bruised eyes. I can grasp what Fred sees in her. But there is no evidence that she can act.