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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 unfiImabIe. With an ingenious script by the NobeI Prize-winning pIaywright Harold Pinter, British New Wave traiIbIazer Karel Reisz transforms Fowles's taIe of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. ln Pinter's reimagining, Jeremy Irons and MeryI Streep star in paralleI narratives, as a Victorian-era gentIeman and the sociaI outcast he risks everything to love, 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, intelIectualIy nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of Iegendary actors in earIy Ieading roles. |
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