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UHD in December

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
The Man with a Cigar in His Mouth, a documentary by critic Mario Sesti featuring interviews with longtime friends and collaborators of director Pietro Germi’s
Interviews with Sesti and actors Lando Buzzanca and Stefania Sandrelli
Interview with screenwriter Ennio De Concini
Screen tests with Sandrelli and actor Daniela Rocca
PLUS: An essay by film critic Stuart Klawans

Cover illustration by Jaime Hernandez, design by Eric Skillman

I love this one but for a brief moment I thought that it was "Seduced & Abandonned" and said "hourah!" because the Italian restoration blu-ray 4K was heavily denoise; thus they destroy the restoration work. I sincerly hope that Criterion has still the rights for this movies and could get the pre-denoising master.
Regarding "Divorce Italian Style" I already have the French Blu-Ray which is okay. Wonder if the UHD resotration is the same than the one used for the Frenc release (only available on Blu-Ray)
I would really like to complete my Stefania Sandrelli's collection. "I Know Her Very Well" was a gorgeous HD blu-ray transfer and one of my favorite discovery from the Criterion catalogue. I hope one day they will "update" it with a UHD release.

The French release is from a rather mediocre 2K master, so this should be a nice upgrade.

Do we know if Radiance has the rights to this for the UK? It'd be nice to package this—the progenitor of the genre name, no less—with Seduced and Abandoned and his Palme winner, but I understand their next commedia all'italiana box is a ways out.

nicolas wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2026 9:12 pm The French release is from a rather mediocre 2K master, so this should be a nice upgrade.

oh cool then; I will quickly resell it and will complete my Stefania Sandrelli colleciton

so apparently this is a new 4K restoration not the French release.
Nevertheless at that time in dvdclassik review they say that it was "all good" in terms of picture quality.
That's based on this review that I have bought the French Blu-Ray release :
https://www.dvdclassik.com/test/blu-ray ... dvd-livret