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Criterion has digitally restored a nice-looking print of the film and the color has been beautifully timed. As adaptations of “unfilmable” modernist novels go, this is one of the better ones; it doesn’t hurt to have a Harold Pinter screenplay in such an instance. Different from the novel in that, while Fowles’s TFLW deconstructs “the Victorian novel,“ Reisz’s film deconstructs “the film adaption of the Victorian novel,” and does so in unique ways rather than attempting to transcribe Fowles’s strategies of deconstruction. (Reisz, by the way, was a leading director of the British New Wave, infusing the emerging “angry young man” genre of British lit and drama with an appropriately Neo-realist flavor.) Not a complete success, but eminently worth watching. Streep and Irons are both excellent, though Streep’s subtle gestures and mannerisms alone practically steal the show.Read full review
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