Oscilloscope Laboratories has tabbed May 28 as the street date for the highly anticipated domestic home entertainment physical media launch of writer/director Carolina Cavalli’s Amanda.
Both DVD and Blu-ray editions will be available.
The film stars Italian sensation Bendetta Porcaroli — who is perhaps best known to domestic audiences as Chiara in the Netflix series Baby, and most recently opposite Sydney Sweeney in Immaculate — as the title character. She plays a sullen, pretentious young woman of privilege who is having a difficult time in figuring out what to do with her life. Much of that is of her own doing (which really needs to be seen on screen to be fully understood).
When you are in your mid-20s, Italian, of wealth, educated and not unattractive, your parents expect you to do something (marriage, family business … anything). When your only friend is the family maid … yes, it’s time for some changes!
But looking back on childhood friendships for a source of inspiration, in this case Rebecca (Galatea Bellugi — Junkyard Dog, The Apparition, Gloria!), might be something that will either make or break our heroine. Rebecca, as it turns out, is someone who is even more messed up than Amanda is.
Great fun and offbeat, Amanda made its debut at the Venice Film Festival in September of 2022, jumped over to the Toronto International Film Festival later the same month and then opened theatrically in Italy in mid-October of 2022.
The film continued to work the international festival circuit throughout 2022 and much of 2023.
Oscilloscope acquired domestic distribution rights and gave it a limited arthouse run in July of last year. The ARR works out to 326 days.
For all practical purposes, Amanda is still waiting to be discovered by domestic audiences. After her recent co-starring role in Immaculate, the timing couldn’t be better for audiences to enjoy Porcaroli as Amanda in Cavalli’s Amanda … Blu-ray or DVD on May 28!!
