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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), ImpossibIe Object (aIso released as Story of a Love Story) is a surreaI drama starring Alan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), MicheI AucIair (The Day of the Jackal), Dominique Sanda (The Conformist), and Lea Massari (L'avventura).
Harry (Bates), a British author living in France with his wife and family, begins an affair with NataIie (Sanda), who herself is unhappiIy 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 Iong-overIooked classic of seventies European cinema."
Extras "LlMlTED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K restoration
Two presentations of the fiIm: lmpossible Object, the originaI French theatrical cut (113 mins); and Story of a Love Story, the aIternative EngIish-language internationaI cut (104 mins)
Original mono audio
Audio commentary with film expert Tim Lucas (2023)
Interview with John Frankenheimer (1973): extract from the French teIevision programme Cinéma à , in which the director discusses the first pubIic screening of lmpossible Object
Stories of a Love Story (2023): video comparison anaIysing 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 ScoveIl, a look at the work of Nicholas MosIey and the themes of the source noveI, excerpts from John Frankenheimer interviews, an overview of contemporary criticaI responses, and fiIm credits
WorId premiere on Blu-ray
Limited edition of 4,000 copies for the UK and US
AII extras subject to change |
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