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Message in a Bottle

(Mercury Studios 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray)

For Message in a Bottle , Sting rerecorded songs from across his career and handed them for staging on camera to choreographer Kate Prince. Her dancers represent a village in an unnamed any-country (the multiracial cast makes it universal). In early scenes (“Every Little Thing She Does is Magic”), it’s a happy place as the cast reinvent tradition with modern dance and hip-hop gestures. And then lights darken, the tone turns ominous and by the end of “King of Pain,” the dancers carry off the dead. In a seriously reinterpreted “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” figures in black hoods and masks arrive to torment the survivors of an undisclosed conflict. Message in a Bottle contains a message about the

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