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(aka "Just Before Nightfall" or "Sul far della notte")

Italy / France 1971

The blond is good-looking, maybe a little over the hill. She lolls on the bed. "Come and play . . . or I'll make you pay!" she says, licking her lips. Michel Bouquet sits by the window in misery. He's a small man, very neat, receding hairline, pursed lips. He doesn't want to play. But he does. The blond closes her eyes and recites her rape fantasies - old favorites, apparently. She gets to the one aboutchoking. She asks him to choke her. Fade to a dark screen and the credits for Claude Chabrol's "Just Before Nightfall." When the lights come on again, she's dead.
It's often like this in Chabrol's films. His characters are the molds from which the French bourgeoisie cast. They're terribly respectable, they live in comfortable homes and work in well-paying professions, they present a facade of total respectability. But underneath there are dark passions and well-kept secrets and, frequently, the ultimate embarrassment of murder. They aren't killers; that's the whole point. They're people who commit murder to their own astonishment. "Just Before Nightfall" is one of Chabrol's best films on his favorite theme. He has, it turns out, a great deal more to say about his characters than we think at first, and after the blond's murder the movie proceeds through guilt, remorse and forgiveness - and finds none of them as enduring as middle class respectability. It is one thing to commit murder. After all, that could happen to anybody. But it's another thing altogether to do anything so vulgar as confessing to it.

Excerpt from Roger EBERT's review at the Chicago Sun Times located HERE

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Theatrical Release: France 31 March 1971

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Distribution	Arrow Film Region 0 - PAL
Runtime	102:06 (4% PAL speedup)
Video	1.66:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 5.52 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
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Audio	French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Subtitles	English and None
Features	Release Information: Studio: Arrow Film Aspect Ratio: Widescreen letterboxed - 1.66:1 Edition Details: • None DVD Release Date: July 25, 2005 Keep Case Chapters 12

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On the positive side is that this DVD seems to be in the correct ratio, it's quite sharp, the picture and audio is clean from dirt and dust, and the English subtitles are inside the screen frame. The rest has more or less trouble:

When the film has the very dark or night scenes, it's more or less blocked without any depth at all. There are some important scenes that are almost total black. The colors are also faded and looks quite ugly, which can also be a result of the shape of the original, 34 years old film elements. The bigger you make the picture, the less details there is on it. That's not the case with new transfers.

There's no extra-material.

- Per-Olof Strandberg

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The Films in My Life by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew	French Cinema: A Student's Guide by Philip Powrie, Keith Reader	Agnes Varda by Alison Smith	Godard on Godard : Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard	Claude Chabrol (French Film Directors) by Guy Austin	Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No. 2) by James Quandt	The Art of Cinema by Jean Cocteau	French New Wave by Jean Douchet, Robert Bonnono, Cedric Anger, Robert Bononno	French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present by Remi Fournier Lanzoni

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