DVD Releases for the Week of Feb. 24, 2009

How about a little cross-coverage? Seeing as the Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois is this week, it’s only fitting that two of the films showing at the festival are also coming to DVD. A l’Ouest de Pluton (above) covers the stories of twelve teens in a 24-hour span. The actors were picked from a high school and thus the film is said to have a documentary feel (not unlike The Class). The title seems to point to disaffected youth “west of Pluto”, as one character becomes miffed by the fact that the distant rock has lost its planetary status. Read more »