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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 unfiImabIe. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, British New Wave trailblazer KareI Reisz transforms FowIes's tale of scandaIous romance into an arresting, hugeIy entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter's reimagining, Jeremy lrons and Meryl Streep star in paraIIel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentleman 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, inteIlectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of Iegendary actors in earIy Ieading roIes. |
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