Chained For Life (Blu-ray)

Directed by Aaron Schimberg

Release Year: 2019
Running Time: 91
UPC: 7 38329 24195 7
Optional English Subtitles: Yes
Color Type: Color
Country: U.S.
Language: English
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Cast
Jess Weixler
Adam Pearson
Charlie Korsmo
Sari Lennick
Stephen Plunkett

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Directed by Aaron Schimberg

Building on the promise of his hallucinogenic debut Go Down Death, filmmaker Aaron Schimberg delivers another brilliantly oddball, acerbically funny foray into gonzo surrealism. In a deft tragicomic performance, Jess Weixler (Teeth) plays Mabel, a movie star “slumming it” in an outré art-horror film being shot in a semi-abandoned hospital. Cast opposite her is Rosenthal (Under the Skin's Adam Pearson), a gentle-natured young man with a severe facial deformity. As their relationship evolves both on and offscreen, Schimberg raises provocative questions about cinematic notions of beauty, representation, and exploitation. Tod Browning crossed with Robert Altman crossed with David Lynch only begins to describe something this startlingly original and deeply felt. – BAMcinemaFest

Blu-ray Extras Include:

Audio commentary with director Aaron Schimberg
Deleted Scene
Interviews with actors Jess Weixler, Adam Pearson, and Sari Lennick
Theatrical trailer

“Critic’s Pick! An inventive hall of mirrors… that keeps finding ways to upend its characters’ — and viewers’ — perspectives. Odd, darkly funny and — when it means to be — a little frightening.”

– Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times

"Extraordinary. A cinematic revolution."

– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

"Humane and transgressive, an American indie of unusually big ideas and aesthetic ambition."

– Nellie Killian, Film Comment

"Bizarre and beautiful. Leaves us on thrillingly shifty ground."

– Keith Uhlich, The Hollywood Reporter

"Mesmerizing. A remarkable mind trip of a movie sure to leave audiences reeling."

– Kate Erbland, Indiewire

"Razor-sharp. Mesmerizingly close to the sensation of a waking dream."

– Calum Marsh, Village Voice

"An intoxicating whirlwind of ideas, spectacularly moving and entertaining. Chained for Life could be a defining film about representation for any group that Hollywood marginalizes."

– Andrew Todd, Birth.Movies.Death

  • Official Selection – BAMcinemaFest

  • Official Selection – Fantasia Festival

  • Best Narrative Feature – New Orleans Film Festival

  • Best Narrative Feature – Florida Film Festival

  • Official Selection – BFI London

  • Official Selection – Fantastic Fest

  • Official Selection – Berlin Critics Week

  • Official Selection – Thessaloniki Film Festival


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Jess Weixler and Adam Pearson in a scene from <i>Chained for Life</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
Adam Pearson and Jess Weixler in a scene from <i>Chained for Life</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
Adam Pearson and Jess Weixler in a scene from <i>Chained for Life</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
Stephen Plunkett and Adam Pearson in a scene from <i>Chained for Life</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
Adam Pearson in a scene from <i>Chained for Life</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
Lucy Kaminsky and Adam Pearson in a scene from <i>Chained for Life</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
Stephen Plunkett and Jess Weixler in a scene from <i>Chained for Life</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
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