Bastards (Standard Edition)

Acclaimed director Claire Denis’s jagged, daringly fragmented and darkest film is a genuinely contemporary film noir inspired by recent French sex ring scandals involving men of wealth and power. Vincent Lindon (Denis‘s Friday Night) stars as Marco, a sea captain gone AWOL to avenge his brother-in-law‘s suicide and to rescue his estranged sister and his teenaged niece (Lola Créton, Goodbye First Love); Chiara Mastroianni (A Christmas Tale) is Lindon’s married lover, who has sold her soul in exchange for the security of her young son; and the remarkable Michel Subor is her husband – a sleazy financier who is the very embodiment of an evil beyond comprehension. Denis takes the viewer into the very heart of darkness in her most unsettling film yet, an unforgettable and thrilling commentary on late capitalism.

directed by: Claire Denis
starring: Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille
2013 / 100 min / 1.85:1 / French & English DTS-HD MA 5.1

Additional info:

• Region A Blu-ray
• New audio commentary with film historian Samm Deighan 
  
• Adapting William Faulkner's Sactuary: a new video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicolas
  
• Archival casting featurette featuring commentary by director Claire Denis 
  
• Booklet featuring new writing by Madelyn Sutton
• English subtitles