The latest offering from second-generation horror director Brandon Cronenberg tops the DVD releases for the week of April 11.
“Infinity Pool”: A novelist finds himself spiraling into a hedonistic hell after being convicted of a crime while on vacation in a fictional country and given the choice of having a clone suffer the consequences instead. Starring Alexander Skarsgard and Mia Goth.
“This is Cronenberg’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ by way of ‘The White Lotus’; it is in conversation with ‘Triangle of Sadness,’ but it also seems to be a deeply personal film about an artist confronting his insecurities and finding a transformation, of sorts, in pure abandon and submission,” Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh writes. “It’s a biting satire of wealth, an inspection of the power dynamics inherent in colonial tourism, and an indictment of the bad behavior that money not only enables, but engenders.”
Also new on DVD
“Living”: Bill Nighy earned his first Oscar nod for this 1950s-set adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru,” in which he plays a terminally ill man who finally finds a zest for life.
