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ADDITION: Fun City Editions Blu-ray (September 2023): Fun City Editions have created a Blu-ray package entitled Fatal Femmes. It includes Juliet Berto + Jean-Henri Roger's 1981 Neige (Snow) and Christine Pascal's 1984 film La garce (The Bitch.)  "The 4K restoration of the film Neige was carried out from the original image negative and sound negative, and produced thanks to JHR FILMS and Studiocanal. Calibration supervision by Renato Berta. The digital restoration was carried out by Limage Retrouvée (Bologna - Paris) in 2020." The HD presentation quality for both films is quite pleasing. I saw no damage of speckles and the 1080P exported plenty of depth although not an abundance of textured grain. There is a shade of teal notably in the funky fashion of Neige. Overall these looks impressive.

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On their Blu-ray, Fun City Editions use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel tracks (24-bit) in the original French language. Both films have effects; gun shots etc. For Neige the score was by François Bréant and the actor / writer Bernard Lavilliers - his first film composure. I didn't find it particularly memorable. The score for La garce is by Philippe Sarde (Lancelot Du Lac, The Widow Courderc, The Clockmaker of St. Paul, Madame Rosa, The Tenant, Max and the Junkman, Tess, La Grande Bouffe, Quest For Fire) sounding supportive of the drama. Both have consistent dialogue in the lossless transfers. Fun City Editions offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Fun City Editions Blu-ray offers new commentaries for both films by Samm Deighan. Samm is always great and has done some thorough research, imparting interesting observations along the way. Enjoyable and edifying. There are also trailers and image galleries for both films and the slipcase package includes a 20-page booklet with new three essays by Steve MacFarlane, Jessica Felrice and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. There is also reversible artwork.    

Neige (Snow) stars and was co-directed by Juliet Berto (Celine of Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating) and Christine Pascal's (also an actress) La garce (The Bitch) has, one of our favorites, the fearless Isabelle Huppert (Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher.) Both films show the seedier side of French culture; sex workers, strippers, drug addicts, grimy club musicians, gangsters etc. Themes deal with betrayal, survival, death, ex-con... La garce has more police thriller attributes - which I appreciated. This Fun City Edition Blu-ray has a great pairing of French crime films with two notable female stars. Recommended!

Gary Tooze