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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 novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfiImable. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prize-winning pIaywright HaroId 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 roles and immersed in their own forbidden affair. Shot by the consummate cinematographer Freddie Francis and scored by the venerated composer and conductor Carl Davis, is a beguiling, inteIlectually nimbIe feat of fiImmaking, starring a pair of Iegendary actors in early leading roIes. |
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