The first excursion into genre cinema by the celebrated French auteur Claire Denis, who had made her name with her previous features Chocolat and Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day is an erotically charged exploration of our darkest human desires and a key film in the development of what later came to be known as the New French Extremity movement.
Dr Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo, Buffalo ’66) and his new wife June (Tricia Vessey, On the Edge) are honeymooning in Paris, though Shane has other plans for their trip. He is hoping to track down his former medical colleague Léo Semenau (Alex Descas, Bastards) and discuss a past study into the human libido. But Léo doesn’t want to be found – he is living in obscurity to hide his own wife, Coré (Béatrice Dalle, Inside), who has developed an insatiable, cannibalistic lust as a result of Léo’s outlandish experiments. A lust that Shane is beginning to feel, too…
A dark and lyrical rumination on the pleasures of the flesh, Trouble Every Day is a remarkable work of extreme cinema that challenged critics and audiences upon its release before it came to be lauded as a modern classic. The Masters of Cinema series is honoured to present the film on 4K UHD for the first time anywhere in the world from a brand new restoration.
Special Features:
Limited Edition Hardbound Set [3000 copies]
Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray
Limited edition hardbound slipcase featuring new art by Ash Weaver-Williams
Limited edition 60-page collector’s book featuring new writing on Trouble Every Day by Anna Bogutskaya, Amy C. Chambers and Laura Mee with an introduction by Peter Sloane, editor of ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis
Limited edition set of facsimile lobby cards
4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation from a brand new 4K restoration, presented in Dolby Vision HDR (HDR 10 compatible)
1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray
Original French soundtrack presented in DTS-HD MA 5.1 and LPCM 2.0
Optional English subtitles, newly revised for this release
New audio commentary with horror scholar Lindsay Hallam
Pleasures of the Flesh – new interview with New French Extremity expert Alice Haylett Bryan
I Could Eat You – new video essay by film writer and journalist Virginie Sélavy on Trouble Every Day as a vampire film
Trailer
*All extras subject to change*
Also, should be pointed out that this appears to be a single pressing of 4,000 units (3,000 for the UHD/Blu-Ray combo and 1,000 for just the Blu-Ray) and will not be repressed after it's sold out.
I'm not sure if I've heard commentary from Lindsay Hallam before - how is she? I'll probably just hold onto my Filk Desk blu with the Alexandra Heller-Nicholas commentary regardless
therewillbeblus wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 2:41 pm
I'm not sure if I've heard commentary from Lindsay Hallam before - how is she? I'll probably just hold onto my Filk Desk blu with the Alexandra Heller-Nicholas commentary regardless
She hosts a podcast called SciFrights, if you want to test drive her approach
I think it has never had a Blu-ray release in the UK with the last UK release being the Tartan Video DVD edition. So they may want to get the Blu-ray only collectors.
Happy about this as it's something I very nearly imported (The Film Desk release), but kinda baffled by the print-run (just 3000 copies for UHD; 1000 for Blu-ray, and no booklet?) and single pressing aspect (4K restoration, Claire Denis, French Extremity...why so limited?). Also the price is bizarre too, being twice as much for the 4K release as the stripped-back standard edition. Are we sure this isn't Second Sight releasing this? Almost feels like it.
Anyway, it's Denis in 4K so I shouldn't be too upset, and sounds like they're adding some engaging extras too. Not a big fan of the artwork either but they have been floundering in that regard lately (occasionally nailing it, but often not). In two minds which edition to go for...thankfully the film is on MUBI at the moment, so I can probably decide quite quickly.
EDIT: Confirmed to me by Eureka just now that it's only a year long license, hence the limited run. Fair enough!
I watched this once like a decade ago and just revisited it on Mubi this weekend. I'm still very much on the fence about whether or not I actually need to own this. :-k
For me, this is one of the most disturbing films I’ve seen, which put me in the “I’m definitely picking this up!” camp. I need to wrestle with it, and this release seems like it has the apparatus to help me do that.
Got my copy today. Lovely edition by Eureka with a nice booklet and, of course, a great 4K disc (BD-66) with a FiM encode.
The only thing that’s a bit questionable is that Eureka advertised a "new" 4K restoration on the cover but this doesn’t look like it’s the case. It’s the same scan and probably the exact same master The Film Desk (VS Partner Label) licensed for their BD, only with additional clean-up performed by Eureka or maybe David Mackenzie which I appreciate but honestly, I was hoping for a new scan as the one made for this "new" 4K master isn’t the best. It’s a scan similar to those Ritrovata made for the Dollars trilogy with periodic ebb and flow when it comes to image definition, causing a few frames to drop in clarity / sharpness only to jump back to full 4K beauty afterwards. Elsewhere, the lesser defined moments last longer and are more noticeable.
Whenever everything’s perfect (most of the time) and there are no occurrences like that, the 4K master is beautiful and looks very good in HDR/DV with great colors and of course encoding. HDR is on the darker side but I love it and the overall experience is film-like.
I'd forgotten that I had it in my wishlist.