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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 Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfiImable. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright HaroId Pinter, British New Wave trailblazer Karel 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 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 beguiIing, intelIectuaIIy nimbIe feat of fiImmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in earIy Ieading roIes. |
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