Le Cercle Rouge 4K UHD (1970)

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Originally Posted by wobelix

So, down to the nitty-gritty of 'Le Cercle Rouge': has the film been tampered with too severely during restauration, especially in the colour scheme, or not?

The 4K disc has a completely natural colour palette and looks like a film of its era. Whether that is accurate or not, I can't say for sure.

I will say that the recent blu-rays that were completely saturated in cyan/blue looked completely unnatural for a 1970 film.

The review on this site is way too harsh on the colour palette in my opinion - however, the actual 4K transfer isn't that great anyway. Really low bitrates in some scenes and visible macro-blocking here and there (and I'm not that fussy and watched it on a a 43-inch TV). Still just about an OK transfer though... just.