Happy End Blu-ray
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Posted February 19, 2024 07:35 PM by Webmaster
British label Second Run is preparing a Blu-ray release of Oldrich Lipsky's Happy End (1967), starring Vladimír Mensík, Josef Abrhám, and Stella Zázvorková. The release is scheduled to arirve on the market on March 25.
Description: Oldřich Lipský's one-of-a-kind Czech black comedy employs an ingenious twist - telling the life story of a philanderer and condemned murderer entirely in reverse: from his 'birth' at the guillotine, to his departure as an infant. Starring the great Vladimír Menšík in a rare leading role, the film is wildly inventive and disarmingly hilarious.
The reverse chronology, with events playing out completely backwards, upends the narrative flow to become a playful, surreal, Dadaist experience unlike anything else in contemporary cinema.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: Oldřich Lipský's one-of-a-kind Czech black comedy employs an ingenious twist - telling the life story of a philanderer and condemned murderer entirely in reverse: from his 'birth' at the guillotine, to his departure as an infant. Starring the great Vladimír Menšík in a rare leading role, the film is wildly inventive and disarmingly hilarious.
The reverse chronology, with events playing out completely backwards, upends the narrative flow to become a playful, surreal, Dadaist experience unlike anything else in contemporary cinema.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM by the Czech National Film Archive
- A Projection Booth audio commentary with Mike White, Kat Ellinger and Ben Buckingham
- Cerise Howard on 'Happy End': a video essay by the film critic and Program Director of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival
- Booklet featuring a new essay by Jonathan Owen
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- REGION-FREE
