La Piscine (French Blu-Ray) cancelled???

[morganb]

Any one have an update on this? Has anyone seen a review? Its not available at amazon.fr but seems to be in stock at fnac.com.

Thanks!

[HumanMedia]

Yes it shipped a few weeks ago.

Amazon.fr did have stock back then.

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by morganb

Any one have an update on this? Has anyone seen a review? Its not available at amazon.fr but seems to be in stock at fnac.com.

Thanks!

It is Region-Free I won't be able to put up a review for it in the next 10 days as there are more important titles that would go first.

Pro-B

[Blaumann]

Bought a copy last time i was in France. PQ is very nice on my setup. However i expect the screenshot scientologists to rip this title apart.

Audio is DD only (french or english with forced french subtitles).

Romy and the Maserati are extremely beautiful, so that alone was worth the buy for me.

[morganb]

Originally Posted by Blaumann

Audio is DD only (french or english with forced french subtitles).

Could you tell me about the english version? Amazon.fr makes it sound like a special version. Was it actually filmed in english or is it just an english dub?

[Blaumann]

Originally Posted by morganb

Could you tell me about the english version? Amazon.fr makes it sound like a special version. Was it actually filmed in english or is it just an english dub?

I haven't watched the complete english version yet, only a short part after watching the french version. I just checked it again, turns out you CAN turn off the french subtitles. No forced french subtitles after all. Sorry for any confusion i might have caused. For some strange reason you can't choose the french sub with the french audio track, which is once again just stupid imo.

Not sure what to make of the two audio tracks. Afaik the engl. audio is an english dub and the film is credited at imdb as having been shot in french. However there are scenes, where it feels like the engl. dub synchs better with the lips than the french track. I guess ProB will shed some light on this in his review.

[pro-bassoonist]

Good morning:

The English version of La Piscine is indeed that, an English-language version, not a secondary dub. Until not too long ago (to be specific until the Lionsgate Alain Delon boxset in North America was released on DVD) I was under the impression that the film was to be seen in its French-version only (I wrote a review for another site and did some research on it as I had seen this film twice in France, and it was always screened in French). However, apparently Jacques Deray purposely shot an English version of The Pool and if you actually own M6's DVD and watch it you will see that some of the actors speak their lines in English (this should not be surprising as plenty of Romy Schneider's big European films also offer multiple language versions - Zulawski's The Most Important Thing: Love is a great example).

Hope this helps.

Pro-B

[morganb]

Thanks very much for the info. I had no idea a true english version was filmed. I am looking forward to getting the blu-ray and watching both versions.

[morganb]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

It is Region-Free I won't be able to put up a review for it in the next 10 days as there are more important titles that would go first.

Pro-B

Thanks for the info Pro-B. Looking forward to your review. No rush