Icarus Films, with documentary
filmmaker Fabrizio Terranova’s Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly
Survival and Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó’s surreal
sci-fi-themed tale, Jupiter’s Moon, already in place for delivery on Mar. 5,
expanded its March release calendar this past week with announcements for three
new DVD product offerings.
Teaming with France’s
Distrib Films, Icarus Films looks to Mar. 12 for the domestic DVD debut of actor-turned-writer/director
Nicolas Bedos’ César Awards nominated Monsieur & Madame Adelman (Best
Actress nomination for Doria Tillier and Best First Film for Bedos).
Sarah (Doria Tillier
— Nothing to Hide) and Victor (Nicolas Bedos — Love
is in the Air, The Easy Way Out, etc.) serve as
something of a metaphor for the history of France since the 1970s. Told in flashback, the couple were married
for some 45 years … through the good times and bad times; the ups and downs
that life serves-up.
Yes, 45 years together
and then Victor is gone and it is left to Sarah to tell their story ... he was
a famous writer, a member of the French Academy, and she lived in his
shadow. But it is a journalist —
following his burial — who had an appointment to meet with Victor, who now uses
the opportunity to interview Sarah instead.
As Monsieur & Madame Adelman
unfolds — through chapters — we learn
that in the end it was her, Sarah, who made Victor the success he was. The irony in the background player being the
one with the greater drive, who endures … it seems that Victor could be quite
the bastard and still charming and loving.
Monsieur & Madame Adelman is presented in French with English subtitles.
Also making its way to
DVD on Mar. 12 from Icarus Films is the release titled Two Films by Anne Georget,
which features her heartfelt 2015 documentary, Imaginary Feasts and the
recently completely companion piece, Mina’s Recipe Book.
Imagine, for a moment,
that you are a prisoner at Ravensbrück, a Nazi concentration camp, or Auschwitz
or Terezin just outside of Prague … it doesn’t matter which hell hole. They all have one thing in common, the
prisoners murdered and the prisoners being starved to death.
Imaginary Feasts is the story of these starving prisoners who
gathered together to share recipes in, as one put it, “Our dream kitchen behind
barb wire.” It was an act of defiance …
discovery of such secret recipe books could mean death. It was an act of hope, of dreams that some
day might come to pass and these recipes would be used once again.
The companion film Mina’s
Recipe Book is the story of one such book written in Terezin 1944 … 13
women shared one room in the camp and only one would walk out alive. To pass the time they shared recipes and one
by one they died. It took 25 years for
the recipes Mina wrote down to be reunited with her family, including her
grandson, who survived Terezin. That
journey is told here.
Imaginary Feasts is presented in French with English subtitles,
while Mina’s Recipe Book is presented in German with English
subtitles.
Turning to Mar. 19, The
KimStim Collection will be teaming up with Icarus Films for the DVD debut of
director Emilio Belmonte’s Impulso.
If the world of dance and
choreography is your thing, then the name Rocío Molina is no stranger to you
and Belmonte’s Impulso will certainly be on your must-see come Mar. 19. But for those outside this select circle,
Belmonte’s film introduces us to this young Spanish choreographer and Flamenco
dance sensation (legend has it that Mikhail Baryshnikov fell to his knees in
her dressing room in homage to her dancing talent), who has been at it since
the age of three … she is now just 35 and is easily the most influential force
in the world of Flamenco these days.
Belmonte’s film follows
her preparation on the lead up to her creation of a new dance show during the
2016/17 season at the famed Chaillot National Theatre in Paris.
Impulso is presented in Spanish with English subtitles.
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