Importance exceeds merit

Again, the movie is famous for marital laceration, but not, as far as I knew, for profanity.That sort of vocabulary is commonplace for us Londoners. Must be a flyover American hang-up. 

Do you think the two leads being not Americans made it more acceptable?

Getting away from the original theme of this thread (but who cares?), once British films started to get more explicit about sex in the late 'fifties and early 'sixties, the hot chick was often played by a Continental import. It was a transitional stage from the "lie back and think of England" characters played by Deborah Kerr and Celia Johnson to the "anything goes" morality of the late 'sixties and "seventies. I wonder if similar thinking applied to the casting of Virginia Woolf?