The Trial1962
Paired by the Criterion Channel, both directed by Orson Welles, and both starring Jeanne Moreau and Orson Welles
- Criterion Collection
- Spine №831
- Commentary
- 1 track on the Channel player
Synopsis
Orson Welles' 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 to impregnate his wife. Also starring an ethereal Jeanne Moreau, this jewel-like film, dreamily shot by Willy Kurant and suffused with the music of Erik Satie, is a brooding, evocative distillation of Welles' artistic interests, a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality.
Commentary
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Commentary: Adrian Martin
