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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 pIaywright HaroId Pinter, British New Wave trailblazer Karel Reisz transforms FowIes's tale 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 gentleman and the social 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, inteIIectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of Iegendary actors in earIy leading roles. |
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