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A Nos Amours (1983)
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A Nos Amours (1983)

À nos amours

Drama, Romance • 1h 42m

Director: Maurice Pialat

Best English-friendly release

Updated 1 year ago

Best video release

1080p Blu-ray

About the film

Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.

TSPDT
2026: #467
2025: #452
2024: #461
2023: #465
2022: #465
Alternative Titles
To Our Loves

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Director: Maurice Pialat

Best English-Friendly & Video:

France Gaumont Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Gaumont France Blu-ray with english subtitles.

The source from Eclair lab has their usual teal tint see BD provided extras for before and after https://slow.pics/c/GEOvltF0

Director: Maurice Pialat

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Cohen Media Blu-ray or France Gaumont Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparisons, but both US Cohen Media Blu-ray and France Gaumont Blu-ray are English friendly, and Japan Kinokuniya Blu-ray isn't

Director: Maurice Pialat

Best English-Friendly:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Best Video:

Eureka MoC

Video Notes:

Eureka MoC > Cohen

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Director: Renato Castellani

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Director: René Clair

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Gaumont France Blu-ray has no EN subtitles

Director: Jean Renoir

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray (flawed restoration)

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Best Video & Audio:

BFI or Gaumont Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(both from the same flawed restoration)

Additional Info:

The BFI and Gaumont Blu-ray releases are both from the same restoration by Éclair. Although this restoration is much superior in detail to the old Criterion DVD, like many Éclair restorations, it has issues with colour. There is a definite yellow cast to the footage, making skin tones appear sickly and dampening the impact of the colour. The image is also murkier than the Criterion. 

As Renoir scholar Tag Gallagher notes: "I talked a lot toward the end about the light blue walls (Criterion); but when I got the BFI blu I was greatly deflated, because the walls are light gray!"

That said, as visible in the screen caps at DVD Beaver, the Criterion has compromised colour too, and often looks too blue/magenta. There is a regraded edition of the BFI Blu-ray out there on the high seas.

The audio on the Blu-ray releases is slightly compressed, but better than earlier DVD releases and relatively full frequency.

The BFI is most likely the best English-friendly release as it includes English subtitles for the bonus features.

Director: Luc Besson

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal / Gaumont / Sony 4K Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

SC caps. Great-looking 4K master except for DNR'd higher-gen shots such as the opening sequence. StudioCanal resolves finer detail but has encoding issues in highlights, the non-Original Camera Negative shots and traces of chroma noise. Sony used a low-pass filter which makes the film look less sharp and finely detailed but the encode is more consistent.

Director: Christian-Jaque

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Lionsgate DVD

Best Video:

Gaumont Blu-ray

Director: Robert Bresson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

France Gaumont Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Gaumont France is 4k transfer, not sure about Japan

Directors: Eric Summer & Éric Warin

Best English-Friendly:

2D Version: Entertainment One Canada Blu-ray

3D Version: A Contracorriente Films Spain 3D Blu-ray

Best Video:

2D Version: Gaumont France Blu-ray

3D Version: A Contracorriente Films Spain 3D Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original French audio: Gaumont France Blu-ray

English export dub: StudioCanal Australia Blu-ray

American English redub (Leap!): Lionsgate US Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Also known as: Leap!.

France Blu-ray has the best video and best audio for the original French version, but has no English subtitles.

Canada Blu-ray has inferior video and audio to other versions, but is the only version that has French audio with English subtitles (dubtitles from the export dub).

UK Blu-ray censors one of the songs. Australia and Canada Blu-rays present the uncensored export dub, with better audio in the former.

US Blu-ray only has the redub.

Spain 3D Blu-ray has the English export dub titles instead of the original French titles.

Director: Henri Verneuil

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Gaumont France Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Gaumont France Blu-ray but doesn’t have English subtitles

Director: Henri Decoin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

France Gaumont Blu-ray

Video Notes:

English-friendly, and 2K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Director: Roman Polanski

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

France Gaumont Release (no English subtitles or audio)

More Drama on Blu-ray

Director: Robert Altman

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Vinegar Syndrome Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Cinematrographe's HDR grading is overcooked, which is a known VinSyn tendency. Additionally, their booklet mis-credits the encode to FiM.

YMMV, but for some, the included BD encoded by Marcus Johnson—ironically may make for a more pleasing experience.

Director: Roman Polanski

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

UK 4K teased by 88 Films https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=24252379

Video Notes:

Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray > Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (better encode on Carlotta without any low-pass filtering, more extras and English subtitles on Vinegar Syndrome)

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MGM Blu-ray

Director: Steve Gordon

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Blu-ray

Director: John Woo

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow has a different grade and a better encode than the Shout! Factory, though the difference in either is not major. Imprint release, which leaves Shout! Factory's master and subtitles as is, is encoded by FiM. https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24473097&postcount=56

Best Audio:

Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD

Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)

Audio Notes:

Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (similar to Criterion LaserDisc, but less distorted)

Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD

Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)

Arrow used the alternate mix, but with extra filtering and lowered dynamic range. The alternate mix has much better fidelity.

Imprint presumably used the Shout! Factory original mix and left it as is, though no official confirmation.

Additional Info:

Arrow has a much better translation.

Arrow LE has the Taiwan Extended Cut which will not be present on the standard edition. However, Imprint is FiM and has its own archival extras not present on the Arrow.

Director: Richard Brooks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Director: Vincent Sherman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Director: Jonathan Demme

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Criterion Blu-ray has exclusive extras

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