Days and Nights in the Forest (DVD) Pre-Order Deadline August 18/26 Release Date September 29/26
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 sound-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.
DVD 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
- Introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson
- Making-of program featuring new and archival 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 Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Devika Girish