Criterion Collection
The Sweet Hereafter — Criterion Collection 4K UHD + Blu-ray US Edition
- 4K UHD
- Region A
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The Sweet Hereafter — Criterion Collection 4K UHD + Blu-ray (US Edition)
The film
About the film
Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter, from the Russell Banks novel, moves through a Canadian town after a school-bus crash kills fourteen children. Ian Holm plays a lawyer assembling a lawsuit while carrying a loss of his own. Sarah Polley plays one of the survivors. The film won the Grand Prix at Cannes.
The February 2027 Criterion edition, spine 1349, is a new 4K restoration supervised and approved by Egoyan. The 4K disc is the film in Dolby Vision. The Blu-ray carries the film and the supplements.
Edition Contents
- One 4K UHD disc of the film
- One Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Essay by César Albarrán-Torres and an introduction by Atom Egoyan
- Cover by Anthony Gerace, using photography by Johnnie Eisen
Format
- 4K UHD and Blu-ray
- New 4K restoration supervised and approved by Atom Egoyan
- 2.39:1
- Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K disc
- English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
- English SDH subtitles
- 112 minutes
Special Features
- 1998 commentary with Atom Egoyan and Russell Banks
- 2012 commentary with Egoyan
- New interview with Egoyan
- Interview with Egoyan and Sarah Polley
- Egoyan to the Oscars, a 1998 segment from The National
- Observations on Film Art, with Jeff Smith
- Isolated score by Mychael Danna
- Trailers
The edition
Edition details
| Format | 4K UHD |
|---|---|
| Region | Region A |
| Director | Atom Egoyan |
| Starring | Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson |
| Original release | 1997 |
| Release date | 23 Feb 2027 |
| Label | Criterion Collection |
| Country | Canada |
| Genre | Drama |
| Barcode | 715515347815 |