A MASTER BUILDER (BLU-RAY)

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• Release Year: 2014
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Twenty years after their brilliant cinema-theater experiment Vanya on 42nd Street, Wallace Shawn and André Gregory reunited to produce another idiosyncratic film version of a classic play, this time Henrik Ibsen's Bygmester Solness (Master Builder Solness). Brought pristinely to the screen by Jonathan Demme, this compellingly abstract reimagining features Shawn (who also wrote the adaptation) as a visionary but tyrannical middle-aged architect haunted by figures from his past, most acutely an attractive, vivacious young woman (the breathtaking newcomer Lisa Joyce) who has appeared on his doorstep. Also featuring standout supporting performances by Julie Hagerty, Larry Pine, and Gregory, A Master Builder, like Vanya, is the result of many years of rehearsals, a living, breathing, constantly shifting work that unites theater, film, and dream.;
• Cast: Julie Hagerty, Wallace Shawn, Lisa Joyce, Larry Pine, Andre Gregory, Jeff Biehl, Winsome Brown, Emily Cass McDonnell, Joanna Howard, Sheilagh Weymouth, Marjorie Graham, Jonathan Demme, Henrik Ibsen, Rocco Caruso, Declan Quinn, Tim Squyres, Duke Bojadziev, Paul Cantelon, Thom O'Connor, Bruce Odland, Suzana Peric, Zafer Tawil, Paul Urmson, Eugene Lee, E. David Cosier
• Director: Jonathan Demme
• Runtime: 2:07
• Company: Abramorama, The Ibsen Project LLC, Clinica Estetico, Westward Productions, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie