France

caps; UK and US Blu-rays share the encode

The audio track on the new 4K restoration sounds flat and lifeless, both its low and high frequencies were significantly attentuated.

But not English friendly.

WB has HD Streaming on multiple platforms, but no home release.

Includes the original matrixed Dolby Stereo mix and an alternate 5.1 mix. The original mix is a lot more balanced overall, but the 5.1 greatly expands the soundstage and makes the live music much more immersive. Review

French 4K only inclues the original stereo.

French 4K doesn't include English subtitles for the French lines spoken in the film.

• 2K restoration released around 2016 France/Japan/Korea/Taiwan Blu-ray all seem to be OOP

• Carlotta Blu-ray is not OOP, but has no EN subtitles

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

US Criterion Blu-ray : See caps. Criterion and 88 Films share a regraded and brighter master; Carlotta didn't follow the regrade and its image is very dark.

Mono spectrograms

Better than Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray.

(the ESC 4K Blu-ray have no original 2.0 and a different Atmos mix. More about the ESC mix in this review)

FiM encode; BFI shows noticeable macroblocking

No dip around 10 kHz, wider dynamic range, more natural EQ; BFI & Carlotta BDs are identically worse; HMAX Streaming is similar to the BDs but has worse dynamics

Pathé France has Blu-ray with EN subtitles https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/3-places-pour-le-26-Blu-ray/176001/

Arrow has a different grade and a better encode, though the difference in either is not major.

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.

Arrow has a much better translation.

Arrow LE has the Taiwan Extended Cut which will not be present on the standard edition.

Spain Resen Blu-ray is a bootleg

Germany Hanselab 4K Blu-ray is disappointing with AI upscaling