Daddy Longlegs (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Mining the emotional sense memories of their own fractured childhoods, Josh and Benny Safdie craft a by turns empathetic and disquieting portrait of parental dysfunction poised between fierce love and terrifying irresponsibility. Manic Manhattan movie theater projectionist Lenny (cowriter and longtime Safdie collaborator Ronald Bronstein) is perhaps the last person who should be raising kids, yet here he is, trying (and failing) to keep it together as his life unravels over the two whirlwind weeks that he has custody of his young boys (real-life brothers Sage and Frey Ranaldo), with an impromptu road trip, a sleeping-pill mishap, and a night in jail all part of the chaos. Vérité New York naturalism gives way to flights of surreal lyricism in Daddy Longlegs, a blearily impressionistic anti–fairy tale that finds unexpected humanity in the seemingly most irredeemable of fathers.

CONDITION: NEW

. MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Director ‏ : ‎ Ben Safdie, Josh Safdie
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Subtitled
Release date ‏ : ‎ August 16, 2022
Actors ‏ : ‎ Ronald Bronstein, Sage Ranaldo, Frey Ranaldo, Eleonore Hendricks, Salvatore Sansone
Producers ‏ : ‎ Casey Neistat, Tom Scott
Studio ‏ : ‎ The Criterion Collection
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1