Sony Pictures annonce pour le 12 janvier 2016, le film Irrational Man (L'homme irrationnel) en édition DVD et Blu-ray de Woody Allen avec Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley, Sophie von Haselberg et Betsy Aidem.
La session d'été va bientôt débuter dans un collège du Rhode Island et les étudiants ont hâte de connaître leur nouveau professeur de philosophie. C'est Abe Lucas qui leur enseignera et il est en pleine crise existentielle, passant son temps à boire et à broyer du noir. Même les avances d'une collègue n'arrivent pas à lui changer les idées. Seule son élève Jill semble être capable de l'attendrir et elle est prête à rompre avec son amoureux pour être à ses côtés. Après avoir surpris une conversation sur un mari violent, Abe se met en tête de l'éliminer, ce qui lui procure une joie de vivre incommensurable.
Voici le communiqué (en anglais) :
TORONTO, ON. (Dec. 1, 2015) – Woody Allen’s IRRATIONAL MAN will arrive on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD January 12 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Canada. This Sony Pictures Classics comedy-drama stars Joaquin Phoenix (Her) as Abe Lucas, a tormented new college philosophy professor, on a journey to find meaning in life. When he and his favorite student Jill Pollard, played by Emma Stone (Birdman: Or [The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance]), mistakenly overhear a stranger’s conversation, a chain of events is unleashed that permanently affect him and those around him.
Rounding out the stellar ensemble cast are Jamie Blackley (If I Stay) and Parker Posey (The House of Yes), playing Jill’s boyfriend and one of the school’s chemistry professors, respectively. IRRATIONAL MAN premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and received many positive reviews there and upon opening theatrically.
The Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD releases of IRRATIONAL MAN will include an “On the Red Carpet: Los Angeles Film Premiere” featurette and Photo Gallery.
Synopsis:
Soon after arriving to teach at a small town college, Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) gets involved with two women, Rita Richards (Parker Posey), a lonely professor who wants him to rescue her from her unhappy marriage; and Jill Pollard (Emma Stone), his best student, who becomes his closest friend. While Jill loves her boyfriend Roy (Jamie Blackley), she finds Abe's tortured, artistic personality and exotic past irresistible. Pure chance changes everything when Abe and Jill overhear a stranger's conversation and when Abe makes a profound choice, he is able to embrace life to the fullest again. But his decision sets off a chain of events that will affect him, Jill and Rita forever.
Blu-ray & DVD Special Features include:
·On the Red Carpet: Los Angeles Film Premiere
·Photo Gallery
The film has a runtime of 95 minutes & is rated PG for some language and sexual content.
