New Release: The Famous and The Dead DVD

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Things get hazy for Henrique Larré in The Famous and The Dead.

Water Bearer Films released the magical realism-flavored Brazilian film The Famous and The Dead on DVD on May 31, 2011.

The first feature film directed and co-written by Esmir Filho, the 2009 drama movie focuses on a 16-year-old Bob Dylan fan (Henrique Larré), known only by his online handle Mr. Tambourine Man, who lives with his mother in the remote countryside of Southern Brazil.

Devastated by the loss of his father and trapped in a village he dubs “the hole in the world,” his only contact to the outside world is via the Internet. The arrival of two mysterious figures, the spirit guide Jingle Jangle (Ismael Caneppele) and her companion Julian (Tuane Eggers), ignites both a fear and a fascination that draws him into their seductive, dreamy nether world.

Presented in Portuguese with English subtitles, The Famous and The Dead played a host of international film festivals over the past couple of years, screening at Berlin, San Francisco, Locarno and, of course, Rio de Janeiro. It premiered in the U.S. on DVD.

No bonus features are on the DVD, which are priced at $19.95.

Check out the movie’s trailer:

 

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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.