The Passionate Stranger (1957)

Directed by

Muriel Box

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A middle-aged woman writes a novel about a chauffeur who falls for his employer. The story is told through a film within a film where the fictional scenes are in color and the real world is in black and white.

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What happens

The Passionate Stranger (U.S. title A Novel Affair) is a 1957 British drama film directed by Muriel Box and starring Margaret Leighton and Ralph Richardson. It was written by Box and Sydney Box. It uses the film within a film device, with the "real" part of the plot shot in black-and-white and the "fictional" element in colour. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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