Days and Nights in the Forest 4K UHD & Blu-Ray

Description

One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy—only to give way to darker moral shading. Seeking a weekend escape from the city, four friends from Kolkata embark on a driving trip to the count

One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy—only to give way to darker moral shading. Seeking a weekend escape from the city, four friends from Kolkata embark on a driving trip to the countryside, where their urban entitlement and prejudices are gradually exposed. Among these young bachelors is the overconfident Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), who finds his self-assurance shaken by Aparna (the radiant Sharmila Tagore), an enigmatic young woman whose cool intellect conceals turbulent emotional depths. Filmed luminously amid the sound-dappled splendor of the woodlands of India’s Palamu region, Days and Nights in the Forest deconstructs the masculine ego and India’s fraught class divisions with elegant complexity. Film Info India 1970 116 minutes Black & White 1.37:1 Bengali Spine #1328 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration—undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Film Heritage Foundation, Janus Films, and the Criterion Collection—with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features • Introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson • Making-of program featuring new and archival interviews with director Satyajit Ray, actors Sharmila Tagore and Rabi Ghosh, and cinematographer Soumendu Roy • Conversation about Ray and the film’s restoration featuring Anderson, Tagore, and Film Heritage Foundation founder Shivendra Singh Dungarpur • Trailer • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by film critic Devika Girish

Product details

Barcode / identifier

5061088923020

Brand

Criterion Collection

Manufacturer part number

CC3863UHDBDUK

Category

4K

Category path

Entertainment > DVD and Blu-Ray > 4K