The Immortal Story (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 30, 2016
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Orson Welles & Jeanne Moreau | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Director of Photography: | Willy Kurant |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A small, quietly beautiful fable which leaves the viewer with a strange sense of loss and sadness.
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TV Guide
Though shot for television on a low budget, this is a sumptuous experience.
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Time Out
Shot on a smaller scale than Welles' other films, but it has all of Welles' hallmarks, including cavernous shots and startling angles.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 4/5 --
The Immortal Story is, in part, concerned with the very nature of storytelling, something that Welles was fascinated with his whole life.
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sbs.com.au
It's awkward yet exquisite.
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Chicago Reader
Perhaps Welles, in playing a man who doesn't understand art, was embodying his more vitriolic critics. He was presenting ever more complex art to critical agents, and was constantly met with confusion and literal interpretations.
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CraveOnline
Rating: 2/5 --
Its sad and bittersweet effects are slowly achieved in brooding, garrulous, overly introspective style, except by Jeanne Moreau.
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New York Times
Product Description:
IMMORTAL STORY was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European merchant. Soured on life, Mr. Clay (Welles) decides to play games with the lives of others. He decides to make the "immortal" legend of a sailor seducing a rich man's wife come true and even picks the sailor (Roger Coggio) himself. Through Mr. Clay's machinations, the sailor beds a beautiful younger woman (Jeanne Moreau) whom Clay pays to pose as his own wife. There's little more to the story than that, but Welles weaves his short tale with an economy and expertise which proves he hadn't lost his touch by 1969. Based on a story by Isaak Dinesen, THE IMMORTAL STORY was originally made for French television; it was also the only Orson Welles-directed film to be released in color.
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- Sales Rank: 77,282
- UPC: 715515184519
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