Music Box Films and its genre label Doppelgänger Releasing have announced the Blu-ray release of director/co-writer Arne Toonen's
Black Out, starring Raymond Thiry, Kim van Kooten, Robert de Hoog, Katja Schuurman, Birgit Schuurman and Alex van Warmerdam. The Dutch crime thriller arrives on Blu-ray on June 3rd.
Synopsis: On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos (Raymond Thiry) wakes up with a splitting headache, a missing wedding ring, and a dead body in bed next to him. With no memory of the previous day's events, he quickly finds himself pursued by suspicious narcotics officers and an assortment of eccentric and dangerous criminals who believe Jos has stolen 20 kilos of cocaine. With less than 24 hours to unravel the mystery, Jos is forced back into the seedy Amsterdam underworld in hopes that he can recover the coke and ring, and live long enough to make it to the altar.
Black Out was nominated for two 2013 Rembrandt Awards (the Dutch Oscars) for Best Film and Best Actor (Thiry). It also garnered a pair of nominations at the 2013 NetherlandsFilm Festival for Best Supporting Actor (Bas Keijzer) and Best Cinematography(Jeroen de Bruin), along with a stateside nomination for Best Film at the 2012 Austin Fantastic Fest.
Special features include:
- Audio Commentary with Arne Toonen
- Oh Deer, a short film by Toonen
- Black Out Blooper Reel
- Unusual Suspects Gallery