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My exposure to Godard films were through VHS tapes. I was too young to glance his 60’s films in their recent formats. The transfer is not too big but honorable enough. The colors are upright, it is thankfully letterboxed, etc. even if there are a few image distortions, artifacts and the sharpness and overall quality leaves a lot of room for improvement. There is something very deplorable, however, with the sound especially towards the fifth chapter (that’s the 5th access in the chapter search of which there are only 6 – thanks to Fox/Lorber!) Thankfully, this is a subtitled film (can’t be switched off/on, they’re pasted on the mask) otherwise, even the French won’t understand the French dialogue. The noise distortion is abominable, but could it be Godard’s deliberate scheme to allege sound since it is the section in which the CB radios or walkie-talkies were being dilapidated in the scene? My impression is that the technician in charge was probably asleep or didn’t care when this noise distortion was taking residence and the DVD didn’t go through quality control which could have fixed it. I haven’t seen the new so I don’t know but since this is a Godard film, anything goes. But then the distortion continued even after that scene so any reasoning to defend Fox’s negligience on this matter proved futile. I found it terribly distracting and I view it pulled down the quality all the more of this already mediocre DVD transfer. Is this the best version yet? How does the VHS version rate? Fox/Lorber is hit and miss with DVDs. They did fine with Seven Beauties, Last Year at Marienbad, and the already LD Criterion-restored Umbrellas of Cherbourg and 400 Blows but did very poorly with A Woman is a Woman, several Truffaut films and even the relatively unique Padre Padrone. What a shame that a company like Fox/Lorber gets the rights to release these big Foreign films but doesn’t have the interest to approach up with quality transfers. I contemplate this is a slay of our hard-earned money to rob the DVDs that they build. Next time you pick from Fox/Lorber, read the reviews… otherwise unbiased rent or wait for a better re-release in the future.
I saw a print of this film in NYC in the leisurely 80s. It was pristine, lustrous and a huge experience. Along with Truffaut, Godard epitomized the French Current Wave of the ’50s and ’60s, and this film along with “Woman is a Woman,” was one of his best. The spend of color is fabulous. Sadly, the source print for this DVD is oddly washed out, contains a few tears and pops in the sound track. It’s hard to bear there wasn’t a better copy available for Fox Lorber to exhaust.
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