That's certainly my recollection, and one of the things that made it one of the most enthralling, pin-drop sequences in Pialat's cinema, but I'll have to take a look at this disc to confirm. I did consult the Gaumont disc, whose transfer MoC inherited, a while back, but I don't think I looked at this sequence (or noticed anything untoward if I did).Nothing wrote:One small question: Overall the look of the film appears to be very accurate, and I may be off on this, but I seem to recall that the sequence where Depardieu encounters the devil was much darker theatrically; to the point where one can barely see what is going on for a good 10 minutes or so.
Deeply cinematic imagery like this does present a certain how-much-is-too-much quandary for DVD or BluRay transfer: really, really dark in 35mm is different from really, really dark on your TV. In the theatre, you had to peer into the image to extract the detail; at home, the detail may have been wiped out all together.