if it weren not for the immortal story pop up once on tcm and by chance get to tape it and i be not sure if i would ever see the immortal story due to it lack of circulation . not too ironic and or a coincidence more likely and to what the film be about . in line with a couple of welles other work like mr. arkadin and f for fake and the immortal story be about storytelling and or how extraordinary thing that happen be sometimes less so when take into account for what really underneath them the person tell it and or be tell it and and if it really make sense or sound like it isn not b. s. welles character mr. clay and take from a novel by isak denison and probably doesn not have any good story to tell and and more than likely doesn not like hear them . i do not like pretense and and i do not like prophecy . i want fact and he say to his butler or servant levinsky ( robert croggio ) and and after so much time hear his company account and finance a very empty task for a codger like clay to hear he decide on something that might get the juice go in his head and to make real a story that be tell many many time and about the sailor get pay by some rich man to sleep with his wife . it isn not indecent proposal and however and a moreau character happen to be in her own be as notorious a clay and and have a history of sort with clay and her family . matter of fact and the main thrust of immortal story be that story be never fool proof and and that what make them interest or fun to those who hear them for year and year while it can not really happen and otherwise there a falsity that defeat the whole purpose of it be spontaneous . so and a lot end up be more fascinating for what be in the subtext this time and even if i still love look at welles direction and which be always an incredible feat of ingenuity and not to mention here when it mostly talk head . he use color very well here and too and a it his first time use shade of brown and gray for the macao town part and little flourish of color that become darken when around clay and and the character of virginie ( moreau ) and the sailor ( norman eshley ) who compare to clay be vibrant in appearance . much of the dialog be exquisite and unlike in some of welles other work not exactly dense and rapid fire in take it all in . there even an elegiac tone go on here and a clay be far from a kane or sheriff in touch of evil he die and really and or at least mad and and there a loneliness to his what i say will be do manner of speak to his servant . welles tap into that completely and even if it take a little get use to over the hour long running time . the other actor be hit or miss and however and with moreau be the clear top choice in this field . with still some of those same melancholy beat she have when she appear in french new wave picture and she tap into virgine a someone who more complex ( albeit in small part my plot convenience and oddly enough ) than someone like clay would have think in his factual type realm . the fact for her make thing awful to bear and even under payment and and moreau also get to reveal a deep level of sexuality that give well another challenge never do before for him how to handle a sex scene ( this include a great exchange of dialog between virgine and paul about an earthquake ) . the men and however and be a little more shaky . coggio isn not bad a levinsky and but by nature of his character he have to be a stiff kind of guy and and sometimes it work well ( his reaction to clay demand to re enact this tory be very good ) and and sometimes not ( his delivery of the line and which aren not well write and at the very end be unbelievable ) . i also find eshly to be like an extra welles might have pick up from fellini production of satyricon with the pretty boy men and this time with an awkward english accent . only when look at him under the surface do thing seem a little intriguing and but on the surface ineffectual . but for the patient well fan yes and patient even at 62 minute the immortal story put another good notch on the filmmaker or actor club of of work . it deal with a subject that i could think and rouse about for hour and about what it be to live a life where thing aren not predictable and or when thing be mandate and put in rigid structure what it mean to want to find why a story isn not make true or not . why do clay want the story to be real and and for only one person to say that it for real or not . the final revelation from the sailor and of course and brilliantly contradicts everything that come before . fact ( or rather and the usual exposition ) and of course and aren not usually the best part of any story and a any filmmaker can tell you .