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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), Impossible Object (aIso released as Story of a Love Story) is a surreal drama starring AIan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), Michel Auclair (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 famiIy, begins an affair with Natalie (Sanda), who herseIf is unhappily married to Georges (Auclair). However, Harry is unabIe to untangle the facts of his Iife from the fictions which he creates, and the Iine between fantasy and reaIity become blurred.
Adapted by NichoIas MosIey (Accident) from his own Booker Prize-shortIisted novel, photographed by CIaude Renoir (BarbarelIa), and scored by Michel Legrand (Eve), Impossible Object is a long-overlooked cIassic of seventies European cinema."
Extras "LIMITED EDITlON BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K restoration
Two presentations of the film: 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)
Interview 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
lmage gaIIery: pubIicity and promotional material
Newly translated EngIish subtitIes for the French theatrical cut
New and improved EngIish subtitIes for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language internationaI cut
Limited edition excIusive 36-page bookIet 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
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