The latest offering from second-generation horror director Brandon Cronenberg tops the DVD releases for the week of April 11.
"Infinity Pool": A novelist finds himself spiraling into a hedonistic hell after being convicted of a crime while on vacation in a fictional country and given the choice of having a clone suffer the consequences instead. Starring Alexander Skarsgard and Mia Goth.
"This is Cronenberg’s 'Eyes Wide Shut' by way of 'The White Lotus'; it is in conversation with 'Triangle of Sadness,' but it also seems to be a deeply personal film about an artist confronting his insecurities and finding a transformation, of sorts, in pure abandon and submission," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "It’s a biting satire of wealth, an inspection of the power dynamics inherent in colonial tourism, and an indictment of the bad behavior that money not only enables, but engenders. But most of all, it cements Cronenberg as one of our greatest cinematic freaks, much like his father, the great David Cronenberg."
