Christmas Gift Guide Sponsor Elena Ferrante on Film is a new movie I will be adding to this years Christmas Gift Guide. I have the Elena Ferrante on Film they sent me but I haven’t watched Elena Ferrante on Film yet. I put Elena Ferrante on Film aside to watch during the Holidays when David is off work and can watch Elena Ferrante on Film movie with me. Once we have watched Elena Ferrante on Film I will be back to share my thoughts with you.
“One of the greatest novelists of our time.”
— The New York Times
“Storytelling both visceral and compelling.”
— The Economist
“Both [The Days of Abandonment and Troubling Love] are tour de forces, and harrowing tours of a feminine psyche under siege.”
— The Seattle Times
JUST IN TIME FOR FERRANTE FEVER, FILM MOVEMENT CLASSICS WILL RELEASE VENICE GOLDEN LION NOMINEE THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT & PALME D’OR NOMINEE TROUBLING LOVE NEVER BEFORE AVAILABLE
IN NORTH AMERICA
ELENA FERRANTE ON FILM
Street Date: October 23, 2018
BLU-RAY/DVD SRP: $49.95/$34.95
https://youtu.be/7nuZnZHxPSY
Elena Ferrante on Film – Official Trailer
The Specially-Packaged Collection, which Will Be Released Just Prior to
HBO’s Eagerly-Anticipated Series “My Brilliant Friend”,
Features New Digital HD Restorations of Both Films and Numerous Extras,
Including a Featurette, Cast & Crew Interviews and a 32-Page Booklet
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Troubling Love © Film Movement
Days of Abandonment © Film Movement
Ferrante fever is almost upon us, and to help celebrate the internationally-renowned pseudonymous Italian author, Film Movement Classics will release the only two films to ever be adapted from Ferrante‘s best-selling works in one special package with ELENA FERRANTE ON FILM. Available on both Blu-ray and DVD, the 2-disc set features THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT (I GIORNI DELL’ABBANDONO) and TROUBLING LOVE (L’AMORE MOLESTO), nominated for a Palme d’Or and a Venice Golden Lion, respectively, as well as exclusive extras including interviews with casts, featurettes a 32-page collector’s booklet containing Ferrante‘s letters and script notes.
An international sensation called by Time Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People of 2016”, the best-selling Ferrante, who writes under a pen name, has been at the center of enormous literary world intrigue. Her books, including “The Days of Abandonment”,“Troubling Love”, “The Lost Daughter” and the four volumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (“My Brilliant Friend”, “The Story of a New Name,” “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay,” and “The Story of the Lost Child”), have been translated into numerous languages, and sold millions of copies around the world in more than 50 countries. There have also been several attempts to reveal her identity, with each try kicking up controversy, and ratcheting up Ferrante Fever a notch. The Fever continues to burn brightly in 2018, as HBO premieres the eagerly anticipated miniseries based on “My Brilliant Friend” this November, and Ferrante Fever, a documentary currently playing the festival circuit, hits theaters later this year.
In THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT, from director Roberto Faenza, rarely have the foundations upon which the ideas of motherhood and womanhood have been so candidly questioned. Telling the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense”, THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT takes place after Olga (Margherita Buy,Mia Madre, Days and Clouds) is abandoned by her husband. And, during these “days of abandonment”, her life become a desperate, dangerous freefall into the darkest places of the soul, as she roams the empty streets of a city that she has never learned to love. When Olga finds herself trapped inside her apartment in the middle of a summer heat wave, the forty-something mother of two is finally forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal again. Aside from its Golden Lion nomination at 2005 Venice Film Festival, DAYS OF ABANDONMENT also captured two Italian Golden Globes.
BONUS FEATURES
- “Elena and the Books” featurette
- Cast & Crew Interviews
- 32-page booklet containing Elena Ferrante‘s letters and script notes about the films (excerpted from Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey, published by Europa Editions, 2016) plus an introduction by author and professor Giancarlo Lombardi
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: BD/DVD
Running Time: 200 minutes
Aspect Ratio: The Days of Abandonment/2.35:1 | Troubling Love/1.85:1
Audio: The Days of Abandonment /5.1 Surround Sound/2.0 Stereo | Troubling Love/2.0 Stereo
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
About Film Movement
Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide. Film Movement’s theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, Sergio Corbucci and Ettore Scola. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
