STUDIOCANAL and Criterion has confirmed that they will release a 4k restoration of Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut The Virgin Suicides in March of this year. Specifically, this will hit UHD digital and 4K Blu-ray from 13th March.
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of The Dog, Melancholia) leads the cast of the film based on the 1993 best-selling novel of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides.
The story is as follows.
In a quiet, conservative American town in the 1970s, Cecilia Lisbon, just 13, attempts suicide. She is one of five beautiful teenage sisters and this incident begins to unravel the lives of the entire family. The story is told from the point of view of the neighbourhood boys who are obsessed with these enigmatic sisters and draws its dark humour from the fabric of teenage life. Little by little, the family begins to shut itself off from friends and neighbours and the girls are soon forbidden to go out. As the situation spirals downward, the boys plot to rescue the girls.
The 4K restoration from Criterion is approved by director Sofia Coppola and supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman.
Special features are as follows.
Special Features:
- Soundtrack by Air: a new interview with JB Dunckel & Nicolas Godin
- Revisiting “The Virgin Suicides” (2018)
- In Conversation with Jeffrey Eugenides (2018)
- Making “The Virgin Suicides” (1998)
- Lick The Star short film (1998)
Here’s a look at the lovely 4K box art.
