Kino: The Nun and Woman in Chains Detailed for Blu-ray
Posted February 25, 2019 03:06 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have dated and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray releases of Jacques Rivette's The Nun (1966) and Henri-Georges Clouzot's La prisonnière a.k.a. Woman in Chains (1968).
Synopsis: Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character. So why would Josée endanger her mature relationship with Gilbert for the morbid observation of Stanislas's hidden personality?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
The Rebellious Elisabeth Wiener - a 25-minute retrospective documentary
Synopsis: In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior (Madame de Moni, Sister Sainte-Christine, and Madame de Chelles) treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
Audio commentary by film critic Nick Pinkerton
Booklet essay by Dennis Lim, director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Suzanne Simonin, La Scandaleuse - a new making-of documentary (29 minutes)