The Italian coming-of-age drama AMANDA is set to make its SVOD debut next week, arriving on the Criterion Channel on January 23rd, 2024. The film world premiered at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival before arriving in US theaters in limited release on July 7th, 2023.

The boldly assured debut feature from writer-director Carolina Cavalli is a hip, deadpan portrait of a young woman looking for human connection—in all the wrong ways. Born into an upper-class family with a doting mother who foots the bill for her indolent lifestyle, combative twenty-four-year-old Amanda (the magnetic Benedetta Porcaroli) searches for boyfriends but only finds misfits who are repelled by her intensity. She longs for understanding but has never had a friend of her own . . . until she discovers a long-lost childhood bond, spurring a mission to convince another recluse that they are still best friends.

We’ve added the release date to our streaming calendar.