Summer With Monika
(Criterion, $40)
The director Ingmar Bergman was partly a sensualist, and his sensuality is “at its most tender” in this 1953 film, said The New York Times. A middle-class boy and a working-class girl run away to live on a boat, and as their summer fades, you can feel “the chill of adulthood” arriving.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
(Oscilloscope, $30)
This 2011 “domestic horror story” captures the torment endured by the mother of a sinister son, said the Los Angeles Times. Tilda Swinton’s “fearless” performance shows us “someone not only trying to come to terms with an endless nightmare” but also agonizing over her potential culpability.
Sing Your Song
(New Video Group, $30)
This 2011 biopic makes the life story of singer Harry Belafonte so compelling that “you wonder why it hasn’t been told before,” said Variety. Given the star’s McCarthy-era blacklisting, civil-rights activism, and fight against South African apartheid, it becomes a history lesson too.
