Blu-ray, DVD Release: The Moment of Truth

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 24, 2012
Price: DVD $19.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Criterion

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Miguelin takes to the ring in The Moment of Truth.

The Moment of Truth is a seldom-seen 1964 bullfighting film by Italy’s Francesco Rosi (Salvatore Giuliano), who is considered to be one of the central filmmakers of  the politicized, post-Neorealist Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s (alongside Ettore Scola and The Battle of Algiers‘ Gillo Pontecorvo).

The drama movie takes a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero, played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelin. Charting Miguelin’s rise and fall with a strong focus on the bloody realities of bullfighting, The Moment of Truth is at once gritty and operatic as it places the viewer right in the thick of the ring’s unsettling action.

More than just a striking drama (and one of the most memorable bullfighting movies ever made), the film also clicks as a powerful and surprisingly moving examination of violence and its place in the world.

Presented in Italian with English subtitles, the movie has a new high-definition digital restoration and new and improved English subtitle translation. Criterion’s Blu-ray also boasts an uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain the following special features:

  • interview with director Francesco Rosi from 2004
  • booklet featuring an essay by critic Peter Matthews
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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.