A Special Day (1977)

There's no getting around the fact that the quality of this DVD messed up any chance of pleasure being derived from the content. This was, without a doubt, the very worst professionally-produced disc I've ever viewed. It looked as though a 20-year-old VHS tape that had been taped over dozens of times had been transfered to DVD with no concern about the fact that the tape is rather off-track most of the time. It's also atrociously dubbed with no subtitle option.

So, it's hard to know for sure what I'm judging, but my gut tells me that even if the recording had been pristine I wouldn't want to go higher than a C+. Although I have no desire to see it again as the story is capital-D Dumb (overworked, underappreciated housewife has an afternoon of passion with the dapper gay man across the tenement courtyard), I feel as though I'll have to at some point, just to be sure I don't like it.

C+