Blu-ray Release: The Severing

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Laurence
– June 19, 2023Find Others: Blu-ray, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: ,

Blu-ray Release Date: Available now
Price: Blu-ray $27.19
Studio: Kino Lorber

The Severing, from acclaimed filmmaker Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies), is a visceral and powerful feature-length dance film. This cathartic movement piece was created in collaboration with the brilliant choreographer Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s Climax), rising Dutch cinematographer Evelin Van Rei, and editor Sergio Pinheiro. 

Inspired by the Wim Wenders film Pina, Pellington was interested in expressing feelings and emotions through a “narrative of movement and text,” told through the physical expression of dancers’ bodies and souls. Grief is physical and lies in the body, in our very DNA, which makes movement the ideal way to communicate it. 

In Pellington’s words, “It’s the way to express what it feels like to be severed or to feel nothing. The film is a cathartic reencounter for anybody who’s felt loss, or isolation, or struggled with these themes: fear, reconnection, isolation.”

Special Features:
• Behind-the-Scenes Stills Gallery
• Trailer
• Sacred Reich – “Manifest Reality” (Music Video)
• Audio commentary by director Mark Pellington, editor Sergio Pinheiro, music composer Peter G. Adams and choreographer Nina McNeely

Buy or Rent The Severing

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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.