Before Marleen Gorris won the Best Foreign Film Oscar for Antonia’s Line, the Dutch director made three films that showed she was a cinematic force. Gorris didn’t go to film school or make short films, TV shows and commercials before making her first feature film. The film looks like she was a seasoned pro. A Question of Silence grabbed the attention of critics and viewers with a tale of three women who kill a dress store owner. Her next film Broken Mirrors mixed life in a legal brothel with a serial killer’s torture dungeon. Finally The Last Island has the survivors of a plane crash trying to survive each other on a remote island. Now all three films will be released together in the Marleen Gorris Trilogy from Cult Epics. Here’s the press release from Cult Epics:
Cult Epics releases MARLEEN GORRIS TRILOGY Blu-ray & DVD set, November 21, 2023.
Los Angeles, CA (November, 2023)
“Gorris talent is to mobilize ideas to grip an audience, with characters that fill us with compassion and respect….” – The Los Angeles Times
Synopsis:
Cult Epics presents the Marleen Gorris Trilogy, three controversial and thought-provoking films, from the director of the Oscar-winning film Antonio’s Line.
Three women, strangers with no premeditated thoughts, kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day. A female psychiatrist is assigned to the case to find out why.
Situated in an Amsterdam brothel, two whores rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile one of their customers, a serial killer, kidnaps a housewife.
Five men and two women, who survive an airplane crash, discover that they may be the only survivors
of a world disaster. The question arises: whether the human race can survive, or does man kind destroy itself.
MARLEEN GORRIS TRILOGY Blu-ray / DVD
Price: $69.95 / $59.95
Street Date: November, 2023
Production Year: 1982/1984/1990
Country: Netherlands
Video run time: Approx. 308 Mins
Language: Dutch/English language w/optional English subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1/1.78:1
Audio: LPCM 2.0 Stereo /DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo (Blu-ray)
LPCM 2.0 Stereo/Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo (DVD)
Label: Cult Epics
Distributor: MVD Entertainment Group
Blu-ray/DVD Cat.no. CE212/ CE213
BD/DVD UP 881190021293 / 881190021392
Rating: Not Rated
Region: Region Free
SPECIAL FEATURES
New HD Transfer (from original 35mm film elements) & Restoration
Audio Commentaries by Film Scholar Patricia Peters & Peter Verstraten
Vintage Interviews with Cast & Crew
Vintage Polygoon Newsreel (A Question of Silence)
Introduction by producer Dick Maas (The Last Island)
Trailers
Poster & Photo Gallery
Dual-layered Discs
Double-sided Sleeve (Blu-ray only)
20-Page illustrated Marleen Gorris Trilogy booklet with essay by Anneke Smelik (limited to first pressing)
