The KimStim Collection, with sales and distribution support
provided by Icarus Films, announced this past week that writer/director Barnaby
Southcombe’s film adaptation of Elsa Lewin’s 1987 mystery novel, I,
Anna, will be available on DVD this coming June 21.
The streets of New York of the 1980s have been updated to
those of modern London in this neo noir
thriller adapted for the screen by Southcombe (Footballers Wive$: Overtime,
Waterloo Road, etc.) as a showcase for his mother, Charlotte Rampling.
The film sensation of 1970s with her cutting-edge roles in
such films as 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Zardoz, The Night Porter and more, did
not receive her first Oscar nomination until this past year for her performance
in 45
Years — which is due out on DVD and Blu-ray on June 14.
In I, Anna, she plays Anna Welles, a
lonely woman with “issues,” who may, or may not, have been involved in a brutal
murder. Bernie Reid (Gabriel Byrne),
the detective assigned to the case, becomes enamored with her style, her elegance
and her beauty — as men so often do in film
noir tales — and, being lonely himself, falls in love with her.
As events unfold, and she begins to experience repressed
memories, Reid is trapped between doing his job and sheltering the woman he has
fallen in love with … who just might have a screw loose.
This stylish, psychological tale — with its beautiful
cinematography — worked the festival circuit in Europe, Asia and Canada (with
wins at the Viareggio EuropaCinema festival and the Vancouver International
Film Festival, among others), had a brief theatrical run in selected markets
overseas, but failed to find theatrical representation in the domestic
market.
The KimStim Collection has come to the rescue and the timing
for this Charlotte Rampling star-vehicle is spot-on with 45 Years arriving in the
home entertainment market at the same time.
Rampling and Byrne fans will not be disappointed.
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