6.8 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna learns that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller and they live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Michel Robin, Mathieu SimonetForeign | 100% |
Drama | 62% |
Crime | 7% |
Mystery | 5% |
Psychological thriller | 4% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.67:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.66:1
French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
French: LPCM 2.0
English
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 5.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Note: This version of this film is available on Blu-ray as part of Twisting the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol.
Arrow Video has been revisiting a number of films by Claude Chabrol that have had previous releases on Blu-ray courtesy of Cohen Media Group.
Arrow's recent compendium Lies
and
Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol contained Cop au
Vin and Inspector Lavardin, released by
Cohen in a "double feature" called The
Inspector
Lavardin Collection; and Betty and Torment, which Cohen released as part of 3 Classic Films by Claude Chabrol. And
in
fact the third film in Cohen trifecta of "classic films", The
Swindle
(the link points to the Cohen release), is included here, along with The Color of Lies (the link points to the Cohen release) and Nightcap (the link once again points to the Cohen release). That means that much like Lies and Deceit's Madame Bovary, this compendium also features one film
that Cohen didn't put out in years past, The Flower of Evil (La Fleur du Mal).
Nightcap is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Arrow Video with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.67:1. Considering the fact that Arrow's website touts a new 4K restoration of this film, the insert booklet is surprisingly succinct and frankly lacking any real information, offering only a generic statement that "the films in this collection were restored and supplied by MK2". There are some clear differences between the Cohen and Arrow presentations which can probably be pretty easily made out by comparing screenshots, but I'd joke that my use of the word "clear" is salient since clarity struck me as noticeably improved in the Arrow release. Compare the first screenshots of each review and you may be able to see what I mean just in terms of things like Huppert's freckles. The palette is also better suffused in this presentation in my estimation, though once again there may be a just slightly yellowish quality discernable, and the same kind of gritty grain field that is evident in some of the other presentations in this set.
Nightcap ups the audio ante from the Cohen release by offering both a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and an LPCM 2.0 track (the Cohen disc offered only 2.0 audio). The surround track isn't overly showy, but the musical elements definitely acquire more spaciousness and some ambient environmental effects are also channeled directionally. Dialogue and yet another somewhat peculiar score from Matthieu Chabrol are presented without any issues whatsoever. Unlike the Cohen release, which featured forced subtitles, the English subtitles on this release are optional.
Not to pun too horribly on either the original French title of the film or the somewhat peculiar choice for its English language release, Huppert is absolutely delicious in this film and any fan of the actress will most likely delight in her devious shenanigans in this film. Technical merits are solid and the supplements very appealing. Recommended.
(Still not reliable for this title)
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三度目の殺人
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