New Release: My Life as a Dog Blu-ray

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Laurence
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My Life as a Dog movie scene

Anton Glanzelius (r.) enjoys his childhood in a country village in My Life as a Dog.

The beloved 1985 Swedish film My Life as a Dog, by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lasse Hallström (Dear John), was issued on Blu-ray by Criterion on Sept. 13, 2011, for the list price of $39.95.

The foreign-language comedy-drama movie tells the story of Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius), a 12-year-old boy from a working-class family sent to live with his uncle in a country village when his mother falls ill. While there, Ingemar finds both refuge from his misfortunes and unexpected adventure with the help of the town’s warm-hearted eccentrics.

The Blu-ray edition features a high-definition, director-approved digital transfer with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

Criterion released a DVD edition of My Life as a Dog (or Mitt liv som hund in its native Swedish) back in 2003, and the new Blu-ray version imports the earlier disc’s bonus features. They include the following:

  • Shall We Go to My or Your Place or Each Go Home Alone? (1973), a 52-minute film by Hallström
  • video interview with Hallström from 2003
  • original theatrical trailer
  • booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and an appreciation by the late author Kurt Vonnegut

Here’s the trailer for the beautiful, bittersweet film:

 

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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.