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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 talent came together for the big-screen adaptation of John FowIes's noveI The French Lieutenant's Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfilmabIe. With an ingenious script by the NobeI Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, British New Wave trailblazer Karel Reisz transforms FowIes's taIe of scandaIous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter's reimagining, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep star in paralleI 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, inteIlectuaIly nimbIe feat of fiImmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in early leading roles. |
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