Radiance Films will end the year with three Blu-ray editions arriving in December. The lineup features Kim Soo-yong’s Splendid Outing, Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche, and Robert Bresson’s Une femme douce.
Splendid Outing (South Korea, 1978)
Kim Soo-yong’s Splendid Outing appears in a new 4K restoration from Radiance Films. Gong Do-hee, a businesswoman haunted by a dream of her twin sister, takes a seaside drive that ends in abduction when a fisherman mistakes her for his missing wife.
The film reflects political repression in 1970s South Korea and stands among the director’s boldest works.
Blu-ray features
- 4K restoration by Radiance Films
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Commentary by Ariel Schudson (2025)
- Interviews with Lee Chang-dong and Chung Ji-young (2025)
- Visual essay by Pierce Conran, Stranded but Not Afraid
- Improved English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve with original and new artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Booklet with new writing by Chung Chong-hwa and Pierce Conran plus archival text by Kim Soo-yong
- Limited edition of 2,500 copies in Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip
Release date: Dec. 8, 2025
Region: ABC
Le notti bianche (Italy, 1957)
Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche arrives with a 4K restoration by Cinecittà. Marcello Mastroianni stars as Mario, who encounters the distraught Natalia (Maria Schell) in Livorno. Her longing for a lost love draws Mario into a fragile relationship.
Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1957 Venice Film Festival, the film remains one of Visconti’s most acclaimed melodramas.
Blu-ray features
- 4K restoration by Cinecittà
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Interview with Adrian Wootton (2025)
- Archival documentary Letters From Rome (1963)
- Archival interview with Marcello Mastroianni (1977)
- Archival interviews with collaborators and crew (2003)
- Audiobook of Dostoyevsky’s White Nights (2010)
- Trailer and updated English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve with original and new artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Booklet with essay by Pasquale Iannone and archival writing
- Limited edition of 3,000 copies in Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip
Release date: Dec. 8, 2025
Region: B
Une femme douce (France, 1969)
Robert Bresson’s Une femme douce makes its Blu-ray debut with extensive supplements. Dominique Sanda stars as a young woman whose suicide leads her husband to recall their troubled marriage in a series of flashbacks.
Bresson’s first color film adapts Dostoyevsky’s short story into a stark meditation on fractured relationships.
Blu-ray features
- High-definition digital transfer
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Commentary by Michael Brooke (2025)
- Visual essay Over Her Dead Body by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin (2025)
- Archival interview with Robert Bresson (1969)
- Archival interview with Dominique Sanda (1987)
- Image gallery
- Updated English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve with poster-based artwork by Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová and Chica
- Booklet with new writing by Alex Barrett and archival interview with Bresson
- Limited edition of 3,000 copies in Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip
Release date: Dec. 8, 2025
Region: B
All titles are currently available to pre-order from radiancefilms.co.uk.
