Director Mona Fastvoid's The World To Come On DVD And Blu-ray From Wolfe On June 01

Wolfe announced this past week that director Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come will be arriving on both DVD and Blu-ray this coming June 1.

The ARR is 109 days and box office receipts from the film’s limited arthouse run in February of this year were $108,871.

Lushly filmed by André Chemetoff (Traitor, The Happening, The Beach, etc.), The World to Come captures the pre-Civil War countryside (circa 1854) as homesteaders in isolated valleys carve out their future in the wilderness (of note, Romania doubled for the up-state New York wilderness, with all of the sets — cabins, barns, etc. — built from scratch by award-winning designer Jean-Vincent Puzos — Amour, The Lost City of Z, 10,000 B.C., Hercules, etc.

It is here that we are introduced to Abigail (Katherine Waterston — Alien: Covenant, Logan Lucky, Steve Jobs), who is lives a lonely life with her husband Dyer (Casey Affleck), a cypher of a man, who has retreated into a quiet, indifferent world after the tragic loss of their daughter.   The loneliness is amplified by the dreary winter conditions that have arrived with the coming of a new year.

Into Abigail’s world comes a new neighbor, taking up the nearby farm as “renters” are the cruel Finney (Christopher Abbott) and his much-abused wife, Tallie (Vanessa Kirby — The Crown, Pieces of a Woman, Mission: Impossible - Fallout).   Abigail and Tallie soon become friends; more than friends.   They find solace in their friendship … moments away from the silence, the loneliness and the brutality.

The World to Come delivers a lyrical love story from a place long forgotten; a romance which is, as the narrative unfolds, sadly doomed through circumstances.
Bonus features for the DVD and Blu-ray debut of The World to Come from Wolfe on June 1 include a making-of featurette.