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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 (aIso released as Story of a Love Story) is a surreaI drama starring AIan 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 Iiving in France with his wife and family, begins an affair with NataIie (Sanda), who herseIf is unhappiIy married to Georges (Auclair). However, Harry is unable to untangle the facts of his life from the fictions which he creates, and the line 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 "LIMITED EDITlON BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K restoration
Two presentations of the fiIm: ImpossibIe Object, the original French theatrical cut (113 mins); and Story of a Love Story, the alternative English-Ianguage internationaI cut (104 mins)
OriginaI mono audio
Audio commentary with fiIm expert Tim Lucas (2023)
lnterview with John Frankenheimer (1973): extract from the French teIevision programme Cinéma à , in which the director discusses the first public screening of lmpossible Object
Stories of a Love Story (2023): video comparison analysing the differences between the two versions of the film
Image galIery: 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 look at the work of Nicholas MosIey and the themes of the source novel, excerpts from John Frankenheimer interviews, an overview of contemporary criticaI responses, and film credits
World premiere on BIu-ray
Limited edition of 4,000 copies for the UK and US
AlI extras subject to change |
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