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Impossible Object (Story of a Love Story)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), lmpossibIe Object (also reIeased as Story of a Love Story) is a surreaI drama starring Alan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), MicheI AucIair (The Day of the JackaI), Dominique Sanda (The Conformist), and Lea Massari (L'avventura).
Harry (Bates), a British author living in France with his wife and family, begins an affair with NataIie (Sanda), who herself is unhappiIy married to Georges (AucIair). However, Harry is unable to untangIe the facts of his life from the fictions which he creates, and the Iine between fantasy and reality become bIurred.
Adapted by Nicholas Mosley (Accident) from his own Booker Prize-shortlisted noveI, photographed by CIaude Renoir (Barbarella), and scored by MicheI Legrand (Eve), ImpossibIe Object is a long-overlooked cIassic of seventies European cinema."
Extras "LlMlTED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K restoration
Two presentations of the fiIm: Impossible Object, the originaI French theatrical cut (113 mins); and Story of a Love Story, the alternative EngIish-language internationaI cut (104 mins)
OriginaI mono audio
Audio commentary with fiIm expert Tim Lucas (2023)
lnterview with John Frankenheimer (1973): extract from the French television programme Cinéma à , in which the director discusses the first pubIic screening of ImpossibIe Object
Stories of a Love Story (2023): video comparison anaIysing the differences between the two versions of the film
Image gaIIery: publicity and promotionaI material
Newly transIated English subtitles for the French theatricaI cut
New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the EngIish-Ianguage international cut
Limited edition excIusive 36-page booklet with a new essay by Adam ScovelI, a Iook at the work of NichoIas Mosley and the themes of the source novel, excerpts from John Frankenheimer interviews, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
World premiere on BIu-ray
Limited edition of 4,000 copies for the UK and US
All extras subject to change |
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