February DVD Releases

Some new DVD releases for Region 2 in the United Kingdom and Spain:

Hurlevent (Wuthering Heights)
D: Jacques Rivette (1995)

DVD Publisher: BlueBell Films
Release Date: February, 25

DVD Extras

Restored and remastered director's cut.

Technical Details

Certificate 15 Length 140 mins
Cat No BLB015 Region 2 Subtitles: English

Of the nouvelle vague auteurs schooled at the influential journal Cahiers du cinéma, Jacques Rivette has always been the least addicted to realism. As one critic put it, Rivette is fascinated by ‘the narrative function of mystery (and the mysterious function of narrative)’ and obsessed with ‘the theatre as the art which raises most directly questions about illusion and reality, lies and truth’. The nature of fiction and the extent to which a performer is psychologically affected by the search for the interiority of their character are certainly his key preoccupations in Love on the Ground (1984) and Gang of Four (1989). (...)
But Rivette brings this intellectual rigour and methodological ingenuity to every project he undertakes. Consequently, even such a supposedly atypical picture as Wuthering Heights (1985) confirms his conviction that text and performance are inextricably bound. Relocating the first part of Emily Brontë's novel to southern France in the 1930s, this is another tale of intrusion, as orphan Lucas Belvaux comes between Fabienne Babe and Olivier Torres, the brother who has just inherited the Hurlevant estate. Rarely has literature been so cinematic. (David Parkinson in MovieMail)

Llamentol publishes in Spain Jane Eyre 1997 and Wuthering Heights 1998:

Jane Eyre (1997)
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Audio: English / Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish

Wuthering Heights (1998)
Release Date: February 13, 2008
Audio English/Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish

Pack Grandes Relatos de la Literatura Romántica: Emily y Charlotte Brontë

• Disco 1: Jane Eyre (1997)
• Disco 2: Cumbres Borrascosas (1998)

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights