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Days and Nights in the Forest (Criterion) - Blu-ray
Days and Nights in the Forest (Criterion) - Blu-ray
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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 sun-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.
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
- Introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson
- Making-of program featuring archival and new 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-director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Devika Girish
