Le Cercle Rouge 4K UHD (1970)

[grahams76]

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.

[wobelix]

Originally Posted by grahams76

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.

Thank you very much!

All I remember 'for sure' (ahum...) from long gone done days of sneeking into the movie houses run by my parents as a (very) young teenager and watch indiscriminantly ALL the movies that were shown, and with as much multiple viewings at that, is that Paris never looks 'glorious' or lush. It looked grim, Dickens' bleak, a bit gray (desaturated?).
But not cyan, no.