Original title: Story of a Love Story
Year: 1973
Country: France
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060697920574
Image: 1.67:1 2K (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
English: LPCM Mono
French: LPCM Mono
Subtitles: English, English SDH
Rating: 15
Genre: Drama
Cast: Alan Bates, Dominique Sanda, Michel Auclair
Director: John Frankenheimer
Synopsis:
Harry (Bates), a British author living in France with his wife and family, begins an affair with Natalie (Sanda), who herself is unhappily 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 blurred.
Adapted by Nicholas Mosley (Accident) from his own Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, photographed by Claude Renoir (Barbarella), and scored by Michel Legrand (Eve), Impossible Object is a long-overlooked classic of seventies European cinema.
Additional features:
Original mono audio
Audio commentary with film expert Tim Lucas (2024)
Interview with John Frankenheimer (1973, 5 mins): extract from the French television programme Le Cinéma à..., featuring the director discussing the film before and after an early public screening
These Obscure Subjects of Desire: Objectified Women in the Lost Films of Frankenheimer and Lumet (2024, 13 mins): filmmaker and film historian Daniel Kremer examines the thematic and historical interconnections between Impossible Object and Sidney Lumet’s 1969 feature The Appointment
Stories of a Love Story (2024, 10 mins): video comparison analysing the differences between the two versions of the film
Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
Story of a Love Story script gallery: surviving pages of the dialogue continuity records
Newly translated English subtitles for all French dialogue
New English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Limited edition exclusive 44-page booklet with a new essay by Adam Scovell, a new appreciation by experimental artist and record producer Russell Haswell, a look at the work of Nicholas Mosley and the themes of the source novel, excerpts from John Frankenheimer interviews, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
World premiere on Blu-ray
Limited edition of 4,000 copies for the UK and US
