Impossible Object
1973 Italian film
- 24 May 1973 (1973-05-24)
Running time
France
French
Impossible Object, later released as Story of a Love Story, is a 1973 drama film starring Alan Bates and Dominique Sanda. It was directed by John Frankenheimer with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley based on his own novel. It was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.[2] Mosley wrote the screenplay at the behest of director Joseph Losey, whose film Accident was based on an earlier Mosley novel. Dirk Bogarde and Catherine Deneuve had been attached to the film.[3] However, Losey had difficulty financing the film and later fell out with Mosley over The Assassination of Trotsky. Frankenheimer, looking to make an independent film, took over the project.
Cast
- Alan Bates as Harry
- Dominique Sanda as Natalie
- Michel Auclair as Georges
- Evans Evans as Elizabeth
- Paul Crauchet
- Lea Massari as Woman
- Sean Bury
- Henry Czarniak
- Mark Dightam
- Vernon Dobtcheff
- Isabelle Giraud-Carrier
- Michael McVey
- Laurence de Monaghan as Cleo
- André Rouille
Production
Principal photography for this movie was delayed until Dominique Sanda gave birth to her son (in April 1972). John Frankenheimer shot footage of a pregnant and naked Sanda, which was used in the movie when her character Nathalie, Harry's mistress, is pregnant with his child.[4]
Reception
The film was a financial failure. Frankenheimer later said it was never properly released because the producers went bankrupt.[5] However, the film saw some success at the 1974 Atlanta Film Festival, where it won the Grand Award Gold Phoenix for best film. Mosley also won for best screenplay and composer Michel Legrand for his film score.[6] Frankenheimer said he entered the film with a stolen print.[7]
References
- ^ So You Make a Movie-Will the Public Ever See It?: Movies So You Make a Movie -- Will the Public See It? By STEPHEN! FARBER. New York Times 24 Feb 1974: 105.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Story of a Love Story". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-20.
- ^ Mosher, Jerry (2011). A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American film. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. p. 204.
- ^ A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film, p. 206, p. 206, at Google Books
- ^ Blume, Mary (Sep 1, 1974). "Fathering a 'Connection' Offspring". Los Angeles Times. p. m20.
- ^ "Industry Activities". American Cinematographer. 55 (10): 1224. October 1974.
- ^ Pratley, Gerald (1998). The Films of Frankenheimer: Forty Years in Film. London: Lehigh University Press. p. 127.
External links
- Impossible Object at IMDb
- Impossible Object at Rotten Tomatoes
- L'impossible objet at Festival de Cannes
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Works directed by John Frankenheimer
- The Young Stranger (1957)
- The Young Savages (1961)
- All Fall Down (1962)
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Seven Days in May (1964)
- The Train (1964)
- Seconds (1966)
- Grand Prix (1966)
- The Fixer (1968)
- The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
- The Gypsy Moths (1969)
- I Walk the Line (1970)
- The Horsemen (1971)
- The Iceman Cometh (1973)
- Impossible Object (1973)
- 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
- French Connection II (1975)
- Black Sunday (1977)
- Prophecy (1979)
- The Challenge (1982)
- The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
- 52 Pick-Up (1986)
- Dead Bang (1989)
- The Fourth War (1990)
- Year of the Gun (1991)
- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
- Ronin (1998)
- Reindeer Games (2000)
- Portrait in Celluloid (1955)
- Forbidden Area (1956)
- The Troublemakers (1957)
- The Thundering Wave (1957)
- The Last Tycoon (1957)
- The Violent Heart (1958)
- Rumors of Evening (1958)
- Bomber's Moon (1958)
- A Town Has Turned to Dust (1958)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)
- The Turn of the Screw (1959)
- Against the Wall (1994)
- The Burning Season (1994)
- Andersonville (1996)
- George Wallace (1997)
- Path to War (2002)
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