It's a cause for celebration that this marvellous film has finally arrived on DVD, and in an English-friendly release. However, this is a real barebones edition: single-layer, no menus (just a Play Movie screen), no subtitle option (the large white English subtitles are ingrained in the image), and no extras of any kind, not even cast bios or a trailer.

The image is non-anamorphic. I don't know if the 1.66:1 ratio used here is correct; the Internet Movie Database says 1.85:1, in which case some cropping has occurred in the transfer to DVD. Image quality is acceptable but unremarkable: dull colours and soft detail, but with no significant print damage apart from a few speckles. Edge enhancement and compression artifacts are occasionally visible, and may be troublesome on a large screen. That compression problems should arise is hardly surprising given that the 104-minute running time has been squeezed into 3.04Gb, less than three-quarters of the available space on the single-layer disc.

Though there are no irredeemable flaws in this edition, it's a shame that Bluebell Films didn't push the boat out a bit further by making this an anamorphic DVD9 and tossing in a few extras.