Lucia is also a psychologically challenging character to understand. Thankfully, Cavina provides no easy answers, leaving it up to you, the viewer, to decide which is the more appropriate motivation. Typical of foreign films, The Night Porter is anything but formulaic. The video transfer is awfully good, though, and does not suffer from any of the problems we have seen so often with other non-enhanced discs. There is no digital over-enhancement or ringing.
Edges are clean and crisp.
The colors are well saturated, if a bit muted at times, which strikes me as the director's intent. There were a few nicks and scars, but never enough to distract from the overall presentation. All in all, this is another wonderful picture from the folks at Criterion, not that I would expect anything less from this great company. The audio track is presented in its original mono configuration. It sounds about as good as a mono soundtrack from 1974 could possibly sound.