The Exiles - BLU-RAY

Jean Genet, one of the most celebrated creative minds of the 20th century, receives an unbridled, expertly cinematic rendering in this long unseen film based on his perverse play. The Maids' volatile mixture of class confrontation, Freudian passion and criminal mischief frames an acid-etched portrait of two sisters whose hatred and desire twist their tortured lives together into a relentless downward spiral of guilt, degradation, and freedom at any cost. Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class) and Susannah York (A Man For All Seasons) play Solange and Claire, Paris maids who tend to cruel socialite Madame's (Vivien Merchant) unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the haughty, disdainful mistress they serve. But after falsely denouncing Madame's lover to the police, Solange and Claire's shared terror of arrest and the unchecked aggression with which they increasingly infuse their InchceremonyInch threaten to destroy them even as they perch on the threshold of ecstatic .

In Joseph Losey's stirring World War I saga, Dirk Bogarde is Charles Hargreaves, a no-nonsense British captain assigned to defend a fellow soldier (Tom Courtenay), accused of desertion. Initially, Hargreaves thinks his client will get a well-deserved conviction, but the more he uncovers about the case, the more he wants to save him from a firing squad. Leo McKern also stars. 86 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack English DTS Lossless stereo; Subtitles English; audio commentary; interviews; theatrical trailer.

Thirtysomething Torontonian Cassandra (Amy Nostbakken) woke up to the news of her mother's abrupt death... and the realization that taking care of the funeral and affairs just fell squarely on her shoulders. Her navigation of the next few days-as she starts to interactively commiserate with her younger self (Norah Sadava)-informs this challenging drama, co-adapted by Sadava and Nostbakken from their stage show with director Patricia Rozema. Maev Beaty, Paula Boudreau also star. 91 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; audio commentary; featurette; theatrical trailers.