Magellan (Criterion Premieres) 05/26 Blu-ray (Rental)

Format: Blu-ray

Details

Rated: NR (Not Rated)

Studio: The Criterion Collection

Director: Lav Diaz

Starring: Gael García Bernal

Release Date: June 23, 2026

Description

A hypnotic journey engraved in images of staggering beauty and horror, this monumental achievement from Lav Diaz boldly rewrites the imperialist mythmaking of the Age of Discovery. Elegantly minimalist yet overpowering in its scale and impact, Magellan follows the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) as he embarks on his epochal quest to cross the Pacific—a voyage that spirals into zealotry and violence when he attempts to impose Christianity upon the people of the Philippines. Abetted by García Bernal’s radically antiheroic portrayal, Diaz composes a stark vision of the brutality at the heart of European conquest and a haunting elegy for a lost precolonial past. INCLUDES Meet the Filmmakers: Lav Diaz, a Criterion Channel original interview Trailer Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza

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