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Title: The French Lieutenant's Woman
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
Type: Blu-ray
EAN: 0715515154017
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 11/08/2015
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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 unfilmable. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prize - winning playwright Harold Pinter (Betrayal), British New Wave trailblazer Karel Reisz (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) transforms Fowles's tale of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter's reimagining, Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers) and Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice) star in parallel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentleman 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. The French Lieutenant's Woman, shot by the consummate cinematographer Freddie Francis (Glory) and scored by the venerated composer and conductor Carl Davis, is a beguiling, intellectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in early leading roles.

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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 unfilmable. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prize–winning playwright Harold Pinter (Betrayal), British New Wave trailblazer Karel Reisz (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) transforms Fowles’s tale of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter’s reimagining, Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers) and Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice) star in parallel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentleman 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. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, shot by the consummate cinematographer Freddie Francis (Glory) and scored by the venerated composer and conductor Carl Davis, is a beguiling, intellectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in early leading roles.

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BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

* New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
* New introduction by film scholar Ian Christie
* New interviews with actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep, editor John Bloom, and composer Carl Davis
* Episode of The South Bank Show from 1981 featuring director Karel Reisz, nov
* Trailer
* PLUS: An essay by film scholar Lucy Bolton



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Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Director: Karel Reisz
Actor: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae
Certificate: MPAA R
No Of Discs: 1
Run Time: 2 hours and 3 minutes
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Release Year: 2015

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