The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old. He likes his clerk Levinsky to read the company's accounts to him at night for relaxation. Tonight Mr. Clay recounts a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor sailor 5 guineas to father a child with his beautiful young wife. Levinsky says that's a popular old sailor's legend and no... (Full plot summary below)
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The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old. He likes his clerk Levinsky to read the company's accounts to him at night for relaxation. Tonight Mr. Clay recounts a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor sailor 5 guineas to father a child with his beautiful young wife. Levinsky says that's a popular old sailor's legend and not true. Mr. Clay has no heir for his fortune and no wife either. He resolves to make the story true... Levinsky approaches Virginie, another clerk's mistress, and strikes a bargain for 300 guineas. Now to find the sailor...
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| CraveOnlineWitney SeiboldPerhaps Welles, in playing a man who doesn't understand art, was embodying his more vitriolic critics. He was presenting ever more complex art to critical agents, and was constantly met with confusion and literal interpretations. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonShot on a smaller scale than Welles' other films, but it has all of Welles' hallmarks, including cavernous shots and startling angles. |
| sbs.com.auPeter GalvinThe Immortal Story is, in part, concerned with the very nature of storytelling, something that Welles was fascinated with his whole life. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewThough shot for television on a low budget, this is a sumptuous experience. |
| New York TimesA.H. WeilerIts sad and bittersweet effects are slowly achieved in brooding, garrulous, overly introspective style, except by Jeanne Moreau. |
| User ReviewMichael OThe last 'real' Welles film... calm, musical in structure, funny and tragic at the same time. A 'flawed masterpiece' as Welles would have chuckled... An apt reminder that, most regrettably, the mold that made Welles is unlikely to bear such exquisite fruit agaion. |
| User ReviewRoy PThis is nearly impossible to find so you have to wait for it to come on TCM. It's impossibly wonderful. |
| User ReviewKnox MThis little known gem made between Chimes at Midnight and F For Fake is a masterpiece. |
| User ReviewJúlio AThe most beautiful, the deepest film ever shot. My desert island film! "The Immortal Story" is quite a short film. A tale, hubris and fate. Abyme in creation and (un)achievement. You cannot be a link of the immortal story - the chain - unless you give your life to it, and die. Even vicariously, what can you transmit, but your life? |
| User ReviewPierre AThe most beautiful, the deepest film ever shot. So dreamy. I can watch it over and over again. My desert island film! "The Immortal Story" is quite a short film. A tale, hubris and fate. Abyme in creation and (un)achievement. You cannot be a link of the immortal story - the chain - unless you give your life to it, and die. Even vicariously, what can you transmit, but your life? |
