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The French lieutenant's woman [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2015.

Social classes -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 768.

[videorecording (DVD)].

Two-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (123 min.) : Dolby digital, mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

Based on the novel by John Fowles.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1981.

Special features: New 2K digital restoratin ; new interviews with actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep, editor John Bloom, and composer Carl Davis ; new interview with film scholar Ian Christie ; Episode of "The South Bank show" from 1981 featuring director Karel Reisz, novelist John Fowles, and screenwriter Harold Pinter ; trailer ; Plus: an essay by film scholar Lucy Bolton.

16:9 widescreen 1.85:1 DVD screen format.

Includes English, French & Spanish language tracks and French & Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Screenplay by Harold Pinter ; produced by Leon Clore ; directed by Karel Reisz.

Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons with Leo McKern.

"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, British New Wave trailblazer Karel Reisz transforms Fowles's tale of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter's reimagining, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep 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. Shot by the consummate cinematographer Freddie Francis 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."--Container.

Fowles, John, 1926-2005- French lieutenant's woman.

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008

Irons, Jeremy, 1948-

McKern, Leo, 1920-2002

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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