Icarus Films will be
teaming with the KimStim Collection on Nov. 20 for the distribution of DVD and
Blu-ray editions of director Raúl Ruiz’s audacious 1999 film adaptation of Marcel
Proust’s epic dramatic collection, “In Search of Lost Time,” which was titled
for the screen as Time Regained (Le Temps
Retrouvé).
Impossible, they said,
but Ruiz carried it off! When Time
Regained made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 1999 it
was heralded as a masterpiece by critics and audience alike … a Palme d'Or nomination, competing against
the likes of Almodóvar’s All About My Mother, Greenaway’s 8 ½
Women, Sayles’ Limbo and the ultimate winner, Jean-Pierre
and Luc Dardenne’s Rosetta.
Now Time Regained will be
available for collectors, film buffs and the curious on Blu-ray (as well as
DVD).
For those not familiar
with the “In Search of Lost Time” collection, which Ruiz distilled down into a
single film — remarkable in scope — we begin the journey of Marcel Proust (Marcello
Mazzarella) at his end, on his deathbed.
With a series of photographs that he holds in his hands, the dying
Proust takes us on a journey through time, remembering events in no particular
order, with himself at various ages.
It is both unsettling and
riveting …
Time Regained is presented in French with English subtitles.
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