KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

Featuring indelible performances from Raul Julia and an Academy Award-winning William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman is a work of radical compassion that boldly expands notions of love, gender, and revolution. In the film-directed by H ctor Babenco following his international breakthrough with Pixote, and adapted from the novel by the iconoclastic writer Manuel Puig-Julia and Hurt play Valentin and Molina, a militant leftist activist and a queer, cinema-obsessed window dresser, imprisoned together under a repressive military dictatorship. The two gradually forge a bond that transforms the way they both understand politics, and masculinity. Blending raw realism with Molina's imaginative escapes into sumptuous movie fantasy, this searing human drama offers a powerful vision of personal liberation embedded within broader political struggle. 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Alternate uncompressed monaural soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features Interview with Suzanne Jill Levine, biographer of Kiss of the Spider Woman author Manuel Puig, about the adaptation Tangled Web: Making "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (2008), a feature-length documentary Short program on Puig Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich New cover by Greg Ruth