Tempting Devils 3D Blu-ray (2018) [Region B Locked] [No English audio or subtitles]

[pixote]

COMBO DVD / BLU-RAY 3D Camille, belle femme dans la quarantaine, ramasse le téléphone portable que Suzy a perdu dans une gare.

BONUS :
— Des Jeunes Femmes disparaissent
(réal. Jean-Claude Brisseau - 1974, 20 minutes, 8 mm, NB)
— Des Jeunes Femmes disparaissent
(réal. Jean-Claude Brisseau - 1976, 20 minutes, S8 mm, couleur)
— Des Jeunes Femmes disparaissent
(réal. Jean-Claude Brisseau - 2014, 30 minutes, HD, couleur)
[version 3D sur le Blu-ray]
— Des Jeunes Femmes disparaissent - Origine et fabrication
(réal. Jean-Claude Brisseau - 2018, 30 minutes)
— Jean-Claude Brisseau, entretien avec Olivier Père

"A saintly woman, Clara, guides three recent acquaintances in a journey of self-discovery with the help of Tonton, an elder man who has reached an enhanced state of connection with the universe."

I haven't seen anyone mention this one yet. Came out in February

FNAC

https://www.fnac.com/a14161925/Que-l...omnsearchpos=5

AMAZON FRANCE

https://www.amazon.fr/QUE-LE-DIABLE-...6&sr=8-2-fkmr0

I assume there is no English support, but I'm going to pick this up anyhow as I can understand French to some extent. Interesting there is also bonus 3D content on here. Trailer doesn't look great

[jchung30]

Does anyone else have this title? If so, have you experienced the following glitches during playback:

00:09:22 / left eye has the normal image_right eye has a momentary glitch:


01:23:37 / left eye has the image of the skyline_right eye has the green screen:


I'm guessing it's not physical defect, but some type of authoring error (a la Sing 2), but just wanted to verify with others.

[BleedOrange11]

Any comments on the quality of the film and the 3D, besides the errors?

[jchung30]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Any comments on the quality of the film and the 3D, besides the errors?

Just a brief blurb:

Originally Posted by jchung30

Que le Diable Nous Emporte or Tempting Devils-- a French movie in the style of Eric Rohmer. I'm kind of guessing in this respect because it has no subtitles and I don't speak French. But they sure do talk a lot. In the course of the film, a couple attractive French ladies have carnal knowledge of each other. They switch out a couple times with another French lady. But while there's nudity, it's pretty tame. Definitely nothing like "Blue is the Warmest Color."

It's saving grace is that the 3D is a good medium or a bit better, full screen, region free. Shot with real 3D cameras and good immersion. There are a couple anomalies in the picture similar to Sing 2. The first is about 20 minutes in [correction--actually 09:22], where the frame in one eye has a glitch for a fraction of a second, but the other eye is fine. Later in the movie, there's a green screen scene, where one eye shows the "dream background" but the other eye remains green. Only a second or two but worth noting.

Sorry there's not more but I won't be re-watching this for a long while.

[xenago]

The DVD contains English subtitles, although this is not documented anywhere obvious. Not surprising given the rather sloppy execution for this release - even the corporate contact on the back of the jacket is a free gmail account!

Looked online and an OCR'd version of the subtitles was already floating around with some corrections but an annoying watermark added. Here is a link directly to the clean SRT:
https://subscene.com/subtitles/tempt...nglish/3237556

As noted by jchung30, the 3D version of this title has technical errors. They really should have released this at 720p50 instead of blending a 25hz source into 23.976 at 1080p... that would have at least eliminated the double-vision/blurriness, and possibly prevented the glitches too.

Here is an example of the frame blending in action, which is constant throughout in both eyes in the 3D release but not a problem on the DVD since it appears to have a proper 25fps version.

3D Blu-ray, left eye (frame 34549 at 24min):


DVD (frame 36024):


DVD (frame 26035):


As for the issues during playback, yes this was an upstream problem and not an issue with corrupted disc contents or a physical defect. The video stream is entirely valid, and the corruption occurred some time before the final encode. On frame 13493 it's even possible to see the bad frame partially blended with a correct frame, showing that the corruption occured before the frame blending:


Moreover, the audio is all messed up on both the DVD and Blu-ray versions - the channels are out of order. It should be in SMPTE order (L/R/C/LFE/Ls/Rs), but is in Film order (L/C/R/Ls/Rs/LFE) so the dialogue only comes through on the right channel without manual adjustment:


I do not think this is a good film, and the obvious poor technical quality of the home release really seals the deal... Cannot recommend it.