Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will bring to Blu-ray Claudia Llosa's drama Aloft (2014), starring Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Mélanie Laurent, William Shimell, and Peter McRobbie. The release will be available for purchase on September 29.
A film festival favorite, Aloft screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014, earning a nomination for the highest prize Golden Bear Award, and the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals earlier this year. The film captures the role super-natural belief and healing play in the lives of many people. Set in the immense, raw beauty of the Arctic north, Claudia Llosa toggles between the past and present to weave an otherworldly tale of grief, meaning and understanding.
Synopsis: As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will come into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of abandonment. In the present, a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths.