Though director Chris Eska's excellent film The Retrieval is now streaming on Netflix (as reported by Vanessa in her review of the film a few days ago HERE) Kino Lorber has announced this week that the label will also be releasing the film on Blu-ray DVD on Feb. 10th The film, which successfully played the film festival circuit last year, and set during the Civil War deals with a thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. However while on a forced mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things go wrong and Will and...
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