Australia’s Umbella Entertainment has announced the New Extremity Collection: Volume 2, a Blu-ray box set featuring four more provocative French films: Dobermann, Fat Girl, In My Skin, and Twentynine Palms.
1997’s Dobermann is directed by Jan Kounen (99 Francs) and written by Joël Houssin. Tchéky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, and Monica Bellucci star.
Dobermann is the world’s most ruthless bank robber and with his gang rob bank after bank, now in Paris. What can the police do but to let the mad, morally bankrupt police commissioner loose on him?
Special features:
- Audio Commentary With Filmmakers And Film Historians Lee Zachariah And Paul Anthony Nelson (new)
- Audio Commentary By Director Jan Kounen, And Actors Vincent Cassel And Tchéky Karyo
- Audio Commentary By Director Jan Kounen, Author Benedicte Brunet And Screenwriter Joël Houssin
- Cassel In The Clouds: Guy Davis On The Daring, High-Wire Genre Work Of Vincent Cassel (new)
- Shoot the Dobermann: 2024 interview with Director Jan Kounen
- Shoot the Girl First! 2024 interview with Cinematographer Michel Amathieu
- Welcome to Reality Baby: 2024 interview with Visual Effects Artist Rodolphe Chabrier
- “Making Of The Film” Featurette
- “Numeric Effects” Featurette With Two Audio
- Commentaries By Supervisor Of The Macguff Special Effects Rodolphe Chabrier
- Deleted Scenes With Introductions By Director Jan Kounen
- “Before Shooting” Featurettes With Audio Commentary By Director Jan Kounen
- “Storyboards & Film” Featurette
- Trailer
2001’s Fat Girl is written and directed by Catherine Breillat. Anaïs Reboux and Roxane Mesquida star with Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian, Romain Goupil, and Laura Betti.
Two sisters confront their sexual attitudes and experiences while on a family holiday.
Special features:
- Audio Commentary with Critic Kat Ellinger (new)
- An Unappealing Appetite for Sexual Maturity: Zoe Rose Smith on Fat Girl (new)
- Such Devoted Sisters: Nadine Whitney on Sibling Rivalry and Sexuality in A Ma Soeur and Catherine Breillat’s Filmography (new)
- Aesthetics of Cruelty: Damon Smith Interviews Catherine Breillat for Reverse Shot (new)
- “The Making of Fat Girl” Featurette
- Catherine Breillat Sit Down Q&A
- Catherine Breillat at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival
- Trailers
2002’s In My Skin is written and directed by Marina de Van (Don’t Look Back). De Van also stars alongside Laurent Lucas and Léa Drucker.
A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident.
Special features:
- Audio Commentary with critics Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio (new)
- Audio Commentary with Writer, Director and Actor Marina de Van
- The Body Canvas: Willow Maclay on In My Skin (new)
- “Exposed Skin” 2025 interview With Marina De Van
- Marina de Van’s Short Films “Bien Sous Tous Rapports” and “Rétention”
- US and French Trailers
2003’s Twentynine Palms is written and directed by Bruno Dumont (France). Yekaterina Golubeva and David Wissak star.
Scouting locations for a photo shoot, an American photographer and his Russian girlfriend drive through some of the most bizarre desert landscapes, but their luck begins to run out.
Special features:
- Audio Commentary with Critic Stephen A Russell
- I’m too dry, my love: Anton Bitel on arid relationships and desert politics in Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms (new)
- The Neurodiverse Cinema of Bruno Dumont with Martyn Conterio (new)
- 2022 Interview with Actor David Wissak
- 2004 Interview with Director Bruno Dumont
- 2003 Interview with Producer Rachid Bouchareb
- “Making Of” Documentary
- Trailer
Each film is housed in its own Blu-ray case with new artwork by MELBS, all packaged together inside a rigid slipcase. The limited collector’s edition includes a 100-page book with essays by Jack Sargeant, Matt Konopka, Emma Westwood, and Martyn Conterio alongside eight art cards and two reversible posters.
Priced at $85, the New Extremity Collection: Volume 2 is due out on October 8.
New Extremity Collection: Volume 1 — featuring High Tension, Anatomy of Hell, Frontier(s), and Martyrs — was released last month.
