The Immortal Story (Histoire immortelle)

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Directed by

Orson Welles

Starring

Jeanne Moreau
Virginie Ducrot

Orson Welles
Mr. Charles Clay

Roger Coggio
Elishama Levinsky

Norman Eshley
Paul, the sailor

Fernando Rey
Merchant telling Clay's history

Written by

Karen Blixen
novel

Orson Welles

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Description: 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 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’s artistic interests—a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine li ... (more)

Release date: 18 September 1968

Tags: Drama (3), French (2), Legend (2), Written And Directed By Cast Member (1), Old Legend (1), Macao (1), Jeanne Moreau (1), Foreign Language Adaptation (1), Impotence (1), Sailor (1), Orson Welles (1), Old Man (1), Mortality (1), HQ (1), Cult Director (1), Nineteenth Century (1), Melancholy (1), 1968 (1), Based On Novel (1)

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" Date: 4/25/2022 Viewed: Criterion Channel First Viewing Note: Someone gave me this film to watch for Film Club's Secret Cinema, and I'm delighted to see it because I like Orson Welles' films. I have nothing to lose because the film is only 60 minutes long. The movie itself isn't bad. The Immortal Story is Orson Welles' shortest film, and it's a bit hard for me to compare it to his other works, such as Citizen Kane (1941). To be honest, I don't have much to say about this film other than tha"