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Belmondo, Cathérine Deneuve, Nelly Borgeaud |
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Anamorphic
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Dolby Digital
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DTS |
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Trailer(s) |
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Documentary |
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Audio commentary
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Deleted scenes
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Concept art
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Multi-angle
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Louis (Jean-Paul Belmondo):
You're so beautiful. To look at you is to suffer.
Marion (Cathérine Deneuve): But yesterday you said
it was a joy.
Louis: It's both a joy and a pain.
Marion: I love you.
Louis: I believe you.
When the bride of a tobacco plantation
owner in the Caribbean finds out his bride has fooled him and made
off with his fortune, he sets out to find her and win her back.
 Lifetime
Hithcock admirer François Truffaut did his own take on the Ice
Queen motif so familiar from many of the Master's pictures. As
one would expect from the ever-sincere Frenchman, plotting however
takes a back seat to character, resulting in an amusing but rather
uneven picture that veers back and forth between genre tropes and
straight drama. The story twists and turns wildly and unpredictably,
so much so that the stars struggle visibly to anchor their characters.
The best moments in the film are the dialogues between Deneuve
and Belmondo, who are excellent together. Their story however,
starting off along familiar film noir lines but ultimately
developing into a weird, twisted romance that may be unusual and
at times even implausible, but that certainly holds the attention. |
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The Region 1 release is non-anamorphic,
while the Region 2 release does have anamorphic enhancement.
They were created from the same print and are otherwise very
similar. Disc contents are otherwise the same.
The anamorphic widescreen
image is framed at an aspect ratio of approx. 2.35:1. Mastered
from a source print that has seen better days, the image
quality on this release is mediocre at best. Not only are
colors faded and inconsistently defined, but the image is
very soft, with very little detail and a lot of color bleeding.
The print has also sustained a great amount of damage, resulting
in an endless succession of intrusive scratches and various
forms of debris.
The original mono sound mix is presented in Dolby Digital
2.0 and sounds thin and frequently distorted. A good deal
of hiss remains noticeable in the background throughout.
The American theatrical
trailer, narrated by none other than Rod Serling
(of The Twilight Zone fame) is the only available
extra.Simply
designed static menu screens offer access to the disc's limited
features.
Dan
Hassler-Forest
Reviewed:
August 16, 2003
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