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Criterion Collection: French Lieutenant's Woman
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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An astounding array of talent came together for the big-screen adaptation of John Fowles's novel 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, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. ln Pinter's reimagining, Jeremy Irons and MeryI Streep star in paralIel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentIeman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, 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 nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in early leading roIes. |
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