Days And Nights In The Forest 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy before gradually giving way to darker moral shading.

Seeking a weekend escape from the city, four friends from Kolkata embark on a driving trip to the countryside, where their urban entitlement, assumptions and prejudices are slowly exposed. Among them is the overconfident Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), whose self-assurance is unsettled by Aparna (Sharmila Tagore), an enigmatic young woman whose cool intelligence conceals deeper emotional complexity.

Filmed amid the sun-dappled woodlands of India’s Palamu region, Days and Nights in the Forest is an elegant and incisive examination of masculine ego, friendship, desire and India’s class divisions. Satyajit Ray balances warmth, humour and unease with remarkable subtlety, creating one of the most richly observed films of his career.

Product Features

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION

• New 4K digital restoration undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at L’Immagine Ritrovata, in collaboration with Film Heritage Foundation, Janus Films and the Criterion Collection
• Uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc featuring the film
• One Blu-ray featuring the film and special features
• Introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson
• Making-of program featuring archival and new interviews with director Satyajit Ray, actors Sharmila Tagore and Rabi Ghosh, and cinematographer Soumendu Roy
• Conversation about Ray and the film’s restoration featuring Wes Anderson, Sharmila Tagore and Film Heritage Foundation founder-director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• Essay by film critic Devika Girish

Film Details

Director: Satyajit Ray
Country: India
Year: 1970
Runtime: 116 minutes
Language: Bengali
Presentation: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Edition: Criterion Collection
Criterion Spine: #1328
Format: 4K UHD + Blu-ray