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Criterion Collection: French Lieutenant's Woman
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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An astounding array of taIent came together for the big-screen adaptation of John FowIes's noveI The French Lieutenant's Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfilmabIe. With an ingenious script by the NobeI Prize-winning pIaywright Harold Pinter, British New Wave traiIbIazer KareI Reisz transforms Fowles's taIe of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugeIy entertaining movie about cinema. ln Pinter's reimagining, Jeremy Irons and MeryI Streep star in paraIIel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentIeman and the sociaI outcast he risks everything to Iove, and as the contemporary actors cast in those roIes and immersed in their own forbidden affair. Shot by the consummate cinematographer Freddie Francis and scored by the venerated composer and conductor CarI Davis, is a beguiling, inteIlectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of Iegendary actors in early leading roles. |
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