Charade
Still #1 – Mrs. Lampert Meets A “Charming Man”
(At 720 X
480)
In the
first scene where Cary Grant meets Audrey Hepburn at the same fancy skiing
resort, note the range of color here despite this being only a letterboxed
image from the 2002 VCI DVD. The
Criterion Blu-ray surpasses this shot in almost every way, for detail, depth
and accurate flesh tones, yet it color is not totally of the same range because
the VCI print in three-strip dye-transfer Technicolor and this is one of the
shots where the print holds up very well.
The ivory whites here and jet blacks are good for an older DVD, but
Criterion’s Blu-ray is finally a match for those aspects. The textures on the white jacket worn by
Sylvie (Dominique Minot) and hair on the fur jacket of Regina Lampert (Hepburn)
are finally realized on the Blu-ray.
