Kiss of the spider womanfeaturing 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.4k uhd blu ray special edition featuresnew 4k digital restoration, with 5.1 surround dts hd master audio soundtrackalternate uncompressed monaural soundtrackone 4k uhd disc of the film presented dolby vision hdr and one blu ray with the film and special featuresinterview with suzanne jill levine, biographer of kiss of the spider woman author manuel puig, about the adaptationtangled web making “kiss of the spider woman” 2008, a feature length documentaryshort program on puigtrailerenglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingplus an essay by critic b. Ruby richnew cover by greg ruth