New on Blu-ray: REJEANNE PADOVANI (1973) Starring Luce Guilbeault and Jean Lajeunesse

Product Description: Montreal mafioso Vincent Padovani (Tadpole and the Whale’s Jean Lajeunesse) has spent years building a diversified crime empire fronted by “legitimate” business interests and sustained through illicit political connections. Having secured a much-publicized government contract for his thriving construction company, Vincent is throwing an opulent private dinner to thank his many co-conspirators, including the Mayor of Montreal (Blind Trust’s René Caron) and a host of other highly placed powerbrokers. But when the evening is thrown wildly off course – by press at the door, a looming construction protest, and the sudden reappearance of Padovani’s estranged wife Réjeanne (Dirty Money’s Luce Guilbeault) – the mob enforcers and corrupt cops that serve Vincent are called into action for a long and bloody night’s work.

Three decades before winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand started his fiction filmmaking career with an informal trilogy (Dirty Money, Réjeanne Padovani, and Gina) that remains the high-water mark for Canadian crime cinema. Powered by an all-star Quebecois cast – many playing thinly veiled versions of real-life politicians and gangsters – Réjeanne Padovani is a grand, gloriously acidic indictment of the pervasive corruption that infiltrated all corners of ’70s Quebec. Mixing the upstairs-downstairs satire of The Rules of the Game with the mafia intrigue of The Godfather, this is one of Canada’s sharpest and most incriminating cinematic self-portraits.

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Director: Denys Arcand

Starring: Jean Lajeunesse, Luce Guilbeault, J. Léo Gagnon, Thérèse Cadorette, René Caron, Hélène Loiselle, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, Frédérique Collin, Roger Lebel, Céline Lomez, Paule Baillargeon, Gabriel Arcand

Genre: Crime, Drama

Runtime: 94 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: French

Studio: Canadian International Pictures

Home Video Release Date: March 26, 2024

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Region: Region A/1

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Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono

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Region Free Blu-ray
Newly scanned and restored in 2K from the 35mm original camera negative by Éléphant - mémoire du cinéma québécois with sound transferred and restored from the original magnetic final mix and optical track
Audio commentary featuring author and professor Anthony Kinik
Shooting Réjeanne (2023, 24 min.) – New interview with director Denys Arcand
New audio interviews with cast members Gabriel Arcand (10 min.), Paule Baillargeon (11 min.), and Céline Lomez (23 min.)
Trailers for Arcand’s Dirty Money (1972), Réjeanne Padovani (1973), and Gina (1975)
Booklet featuring a new interview with author Peter Edwards (The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime)
Reversible cover artwork
Alternate English language audio track
English SDH subtitles