New on DVD: Watch family drama unfold 'In the Summers'
Published in Entertainment News
A semi-autobiographical drama awarded the U.S. grand jury prize in the dramatic competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival tops the DVD releases for the week of Feb. 11.
"In the Summers": Sisters living with their mother (who does not appear in the story) make several summertime visits over the years to their father's house in New Mexico in this moving debut feature from filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza.
"A lot happens, some of it life-changing, some of it heartrending, parts of it (in story terms) a bit rushed or on-the-nose," writes Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips in his review. "The actors, unerringly well-cast, more or less take care of those last parts."
ALSO NEW ON DVD FEB. 11
"Across the River and Into the Trees": Liev Schreiber and Matilda De Angelis star in this historical drama based on Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel set in postwar Venice about an Army officer with a terminal diagnosis.
"King Lear": French New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard’s suitably avant-garde 1987 adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy joins the Criterion Collection ranks on DVD and Blu-ray with a new 2K digital restoration.
OUT ON DIGITAL HD FEB. 11
"Better Man": Unusual biopic about British pop star Robbie Williams, who is portrayed as a CGI chimpanzee, with the musician voicing the film’s less-evolved version of himself, and Michael Gracey (“The Greatest Showman”) directing.
"The Demoness": The proceedings at an island retreat for couples looking to rekindle the flame is interrupted by a malevolent entity that feeds on their pain.
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