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Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Polish |
| Language Notes: | Polish dialogue; English subtitles. |
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[New York] :
Criterion Collection,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Blu-ray edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
896. |
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| Summary: | Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid," in which the girls' bond is tested and their survival threatened after one sister fall |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 2015. Wide screen (2.39:1). Special features: New program about the making of the film ; interviews ; deleted scenes ; Aria diva (2007) and Viva Maria! (2010) two short films by Smoczyńska ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation ; essay by Angela Lovell. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert |
| Format: | Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (2.39:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Kuba Kijowski ; music, Barbara Wrońska, Zuzanna Wrońska ; editor, Jarosław Kamiński. |
| ISBN: | 9781681433660 1681433664 |