Three Colors: White (1994)
Trois couleurs : Blanc
Comedy, Drama, Mystery • 1h 32m
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Cast: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr, Grzegorz Warchoł, Jerzy Nowak, Aleksander Bardini, Cezary Harasimowicz, Jerzy Trela, Cezary Pazura, Michel Lisowski, Piotr Machalica, Barbara Dziekan, Marzena Trybała, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Francis Coffinet, Yannick Evely, Jacques Disses, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska, Krystyna Bigelmajer, Jerzy Dominik, Jakub Grzegorek, Małgorzata Kaczmarska, Aleksander Kalinowski, Stan Latek, Joanna Ladynska, Marianna Grodzka-Marziano, Jan Mayzel, J. Modet, Liliana Okowity-Brosset, Adam Papliński, Wojciech Paszkowski, Małgorzata Prażmowska, Maria Robaszkiewicz, Zdzisław Rychter, Bozena Szymanska, Bartłomiej Topa, Wanda Wróblewska, M. Verner, Piotr Zelt, Juliette Binoche, Florence Pernel, Andrzej Precigs, Grażyna Szapołowska
UHD tiers
UK import (caveat: no original audio)
good encodes, no OG audio
better encode on the UK set across all three films + documentaries in HD
About the film
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Kino Lorber DVD Mono
2023 Criterion 4K Blu-ray (meh compression) / Curzon 4K Blu-ray (visible chroma noise)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2023 Curzon 4K Blu-ray
2023 Criterion 4K Blu-ray (bad compression) / Curzon 4K Blu-ray (visible chroma noise and meh compression)
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Director: Béla Tarr
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Curzon 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
Supposed to have better translation than Criterion.
Director: Michael Haneke
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2025 Curzon UK Blu-ray or 2013 TF1 FR Blu-ray (caps)
Curzon has a slightly better encode and preserves all the noise of the digital source, but ends up obscuring actual detail in some shots. Both are quite good, only caveat being that the TF1 disc is slightly cropped and has a black bar on top.
2008 Artificial Eye UK and 2025 Umbrella AU discs have incorrect pitch. TF1 FR disc is missing 7 minutes of audio in the left channel. See spectrograms.
Director: Walter Salles
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Original matrixed Dolby Stereo: Curzon 4K Blu-ray
Surround mix: Vision Film Polish PAL DVD (2000)
The surround mix is fully discrete, not a mere decode or upmix of the Dolby Stereo LCRS track. This mix has never appeared on any other releases.
Director: Jean Vigo
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Director: Jean Vigo
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Director: Jean Vigo
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Directors: Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman
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More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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