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Featuring indelible performances from Raul Julia and an Academy Award-winning William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman is a work of radical compassion that boldly expands notions of love, gender, and revolution.

In the film-directed by Héctor Babenco following his international breakthrough with Pixote, and adapted from the novel by the iconoclastic writer Manuel Puig-Julia and Hurt play Valentin and Molina, a militant leftist activist and a queer, cinema-obsessed window dresser, imprisoned together under a repressive military dictatorship. The two gradually forge a bond that transforms the way they both understand politics, sexuality, and masculinity.

Blending raw realism with Molina's imaginative escapes into sumptuous movie fantasy, this searing human drama offers a powerful vision of personal liberation embedded within broader political struggle.

With a new 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, Kiss Of The Spider Woman arrives on 4K Ultra HD on 2nd February 2025 from Spirit Entertainment as part of the Criterion Collection.

Special Features

  • New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • Alternate uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Interview with Suzanne Jill Levine, biographer of Kiss of the Spider Woman author Manuel Puig, about the adaptation
  • Tangled Web: Making "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (2008), a feature-length documentary
  • Short program on Puig
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich