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The Immortal Story is, in part, concerned with the very nature of storytelling, something that Welles was fascinated with his whole life. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2013
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- Picture 8/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 9/10
- Closing
Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Storyis a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to imp...
The Criterion Collection presents both the English and French language versions of Orson Welles’ The Immortal Storyon Blu-ray, presented here on a dual-layer disc in the aspect ratio of 1.66:1. Both versions are presented in high-definition, encoded at 1080p/24hz, and both come from a restoration taken from 4K scans of the original negative and an ...
Still, having said that, it’s not like the English version is much better because even with Welles and Eshley’s characters speaking English the dialogue can still feel detached from the image, which can occasionally be distracting. Getting past that (which is, of course, completely inherent in the film itself) the sound quality is at least rather g...
Criterion nicely loads up this edition, which is a good thing considering the film is less than an hour long (the more value the better). As mentioned previously this release does feature both the English and French versions, running 58-minutes and 50-minutes respectively. It’s odd because despite the time difference there isn’t a huge difference b...
With a sharp presentation for both versions and an excellent round of supplements, this release comes with a very high recommendation! BUY AT:
Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money ...
The Immortal Story: Directed by Orson Welles. With Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley. In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife.