Radiance Films has announced its December, which include Korean cineaste Kim Soo-yong's Splendid Outing, Lucino Visconti's Le notti bianche, Robert Bresson's Une femme douce, and the fifth instalment of the label's Dirty Arthouse zine. Full details below.
SPLENDID OUTING [HWARYEOHAN WICHUL] (South Korea 1978)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 8 December 2025 | £17.99
Following a dream about her dead twin sister, thriving corporate tycoon Gong Do-hee (Yoon Jeong-hee, Poetry) takes a drive to the seaside. But her splendid outing becomes a nightmarish one when she is kidnapped and forced to live with a gruff island fisherman who insists that she is his runaway wife.
Featuring a timely message about political oppression that evaded the stringent censors of the day, this daring modernist work from prolific Korean cineaste Kim Soo-yong (Mist) stands as one of the boldest works of Korean cinema's darkest era — the 1970s.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES:
- New 4K restoration by Radiance Films
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Audio Commentary by Ariel Schudson (2025)
- Interview with filmmaker Lee Chang-dong (2025)
- Interview with assistant director Chung Ji-young (2025)
- Stranded but Not Afraid: The Island Women of Classic Korean Cinema - a visual essay by Pierce Conran
- Newly improved English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Chung Chong-hwa and Pierce Conran and archival writing by Director Kim Soo-yong
- Limited edition of 2500 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
LE NOTTI BIANCHE [WHITE NIGHTS] (Italy/France 1957)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 8 December 2025 | £17.99
One fateful night on the streets of Livorno, world-weary Mario (Marcello Mastroianni, Allonsanfan) bumps into Natalia (Maria Schell, The Last Bridge), a visibly distressed young woman. As Marco attempts to comfort her, Natalia recounts the story of a lost love (Jean Marais) who she hears is back in town. In a bid to remain close to her, Mario reluctantly agrees to help Maria find him.
Adapted from a Fyodor Dostoyevsky short story, director Luchino Visconti (Senso, La terra trema) captures the agony and ecstasy of infatuation in this exquisite melodrama. Headlined by two stellar performances from Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Schell, Le notti bianche won the Silver Lion at the 1957 Venice Film Festival.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES:
- 4K restoration by Cinecittà
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Interview with producer and programmer Adrian Wootton (2025)
- Letters From Rome: Luchino Visconti - archival documentary where Visconti is interviewed in Rome by Andre Labarthe (1963)
- Archival interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni (1977)
- Archival interviews with Visconti collaborators and Le notti bianche crew (2003)
- Audiobook reading of Dostoyevsky's original short story 'White Nights' (2010)
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition booklet featuring a new essay by Pasquale Iannone and archival writing
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
UNE FEMME DOUCE [A GENTLE WOMAN] (France 1969)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 8 December 2025 | £17.99
From the balcony of her Parisian apartment, a young woman (Dominique Sanda, The Conformist) jumps to her death. Her body is moved to the bed that she shared with her husband Luc (Guy Frangin), a pawnbroker she met at a time of need. Through a series of flashbacks, Luc reflects on their marriage and the events that may have led to her suicide.
With his first colour film, director Robert Bresson (Pickpocket) continues his career-long fascination with the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in this striking chamber drama about a crumbling marriage. Anchored by a starmaking turn from the then-unknown Dominique Sanda, Une femme douce is a masterful and timeless meditation on male-female relationships.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES:
- High-Definition digital transfer
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- New audio commentary by Michael Brooke (2025)
- Over Her Dead Body – a visual essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin (2025)
- Archival interview with Robert Bresson (1969)
- Archival interview with Dominique Sanda (1987)
- Image gallery
- New English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters by Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová and Chica
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Alex Barrett and an archival interview with Robert Bresson
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
DIRTY ARTHOUSE VOL 5
36-page zine | 8 December 2025 | £2.99
The Radiance zine dedicated to the less discussed side of "serious" cinema, encompassing the strange, controversial and 'difficult' films. With new writing from around the world, issue 5 focuses on taboo 'relationships' and includes:
- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on L'enfer( 1994)
- Willow Catelyn Maclay on Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)
- Jack Sargeant on Border (2018)
- Jerome Reuter on Kissed (1996)
- Suzanne Boleyn on Ma Mere (2004)
- Kat Ellinger on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
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