Derek Jacobi, as always, is in fine form and manages to steal quite a few scenes for himself. So, watch this flick with a smoker that you want to quit, hopefully it will make an impression. The transfer is quite nice, displaying a sharp and detailed image. Colors reproduce with a natural level of saturation and healthy looking flesh tones. As for the black and white sequences, they are surprisingly good, especially when you consider that the entire movie was shot on color film stock and the that black and white sequences were created off a color negative.
Blacks are a deep inky black and there is a good deal of subtlety in the shades of gray.
Contrast is pretty even in both the color and the black and white sections of the film. Film grain was occasionally noticeable during the film, more so during the black and white sequences. Shadow detail is good on this 1991 release, although the definition is below the level one sees in a brand new movie. The film element utilized for the transfer has a few blemishes, but none are distracting in nature. Digital compression artifacts do not affect the image in any adverse way.