Two Upcoming Kino Lorber Blu-ray Releases Detailed
Posted August 24, 2015 05:29 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Alonso Ruizpalacios' Güeros (2014), starring Tenoch Huerta, Sebastián Aguirre, and Ilse Salas, and Stéphane Lafleur' Tu dors Nicole (2014), starring Julianne Côté, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, and Luc Senay.
Winner of Best Canadian Film Award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards and nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards.
Nicole (Julianne Cote) is adrift after college graduation, working a dead-end summer job in her small Quebec hometown and spending evenings with her best pal, Veronique (Catherine St-Laurent). When her older brother Remi (Marc-Andre Grondin) unexpectedly returns with his bandmates in tow, disrupting the girls half-baked summer, it becomes clear to Nicole that something must and will change. Shot on gorgeous black-and-white 35mm (A.A. Dowd, The A.V. Club), and infused with a sultry melancholy, Tu dors Nicole brilliantly captures that liminal stage where the fading yet familiar attachments of childhood still seem far more appealing, precious, and real than the sterility of the grown-up world.
The winner of five Ariels (the Mexican Academy Awards), including Best Picture and Best Director, Gueros is one of the most striking debut features in recent memory.
Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonardo Ortizgris) have been living in angst-ridden limbo. Education-less, motionless, purposeless, and unsure of what the strike will bring, they begin to look for strange ways to kill time. But their idiosyncratic routine is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Tomas (Sebastian Aguirre), Sombra's kid brother. Unable to fit in amongst these older slackers, Tomas discovers that unsung Mexican folk-rock hero Epigmenio Cruz (Alfonso Charpener) has been hospitalized somewhere in the city. Toma s convinces Sombra and Santos that they must track him down in order to pay their final respects. But what they thought would be a simple trip to find their childhood idol soon becomes a voy-age of self-discovery across Mexico City's invisible frontiers.