It came to my attention that The Babadook director Jennifer Kent‘s (interview) sophomore effort, The Nightingale (read our review), had yet to make its way to home video after a theatrical run this past summer. I did a little checking in and learned that IFC will release the film for digital purchase this Friday, October 25th, with a full VOD release on November 1, 2019, day-and-date with its arrival on Hulu! A DVD date is forthcoming.
Bloody Disgusting’s Meredith Borders wrote in her review that:
“The Nightingale is so gorgeously, urgently shot, so pressing and important, that a film set in 1820s Tasmania feels as current and present as possible.”
“Set in Tasmania in 1825, The Nightingale follows a 21-year-old Irish female convict (Aisling Franciosi) who witnesses the brutal murder of her husband and baby by her soldier master and his cronies. Unable to find justice, she takes an Aboriginal male tracker with her through the hellish wilderness to seek revenge on the men.”
“The film is a study on violence and what a violent mind and therefore a violent society can do to damage the human spirit,” Kent told Variety earlier this year. “It’s about how we can evolve through and beyond that violence. For me The Nightingale is about love — not in a schmaltzy way — but its power to allow us to evolve as human beings.”
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