Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3 (Blu-ray)

Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project has maintained a fierce commitment to preserving and presenting masterpieces from around the globe, with a growing roster of more than three dozen restorations that have introduced moviegoers to often-overlooked areas of cinema history. Presenting passionate stories of revolution, identity, agency, forgiveness, and exclusion, this collectors set gathers six of those important works, from Brazil (Pixote), Cuba (Luca), Indonesia (After the Curfew), Iran (Downpour), Mauritania (Soleil ), and Mexico (Dos monjes). Each title is a pathbreaking contribution to the art form and a window onto a filmmaking tradition that international audiences previously had limited opportunities to experience. LUCA A breathtaking vision of Cuban revolutionary history wrought with white-hot intensity by Humberto Sols, this operatic epic tells the story of a changing country through the eyes of three women, each named Luca. In 1895, she is a tragi