Source France | Publisher : Pathé | Release date : 13 December 2023
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 2.39
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
French Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
French
English
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9.5
It is brought to the attention of our dear readers that, in addition to the specified and used viewing equipment, the rendering may differ from one installation to another, whether or not it is calibrated, as well as personal preferences and expectations may influence notation. Moreover, the images in the article are not representative of the edition tested.
Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Philips 65OLED908 (Dolby Vision Filmmaker)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar (Dolby Atmos), SVS SB-4000
WORK - Asterix at Les Nuls
The story begins a long time ago in Alexandria (or in Alexandria you can say both)... Julius Caesar challenges Cleopatra to build him a palace in three months. Time not possible for Numberbis, the Egyptian architect. His only hope: Panoramix and his magic potion. With Asterix, Obelix and Idefix, our heroes will have to defeat the plans of the vil Amonbofis, the rival architect, jealous of not being chosen...
Cult of cult, this popular comedy « pharaonix » who never takes himself seriously is a family entertainment in the good communicative mood that abounds with winks, references, word games and sketches « anachronix » bottled in the spirit Canal Dantan. The staging dares everything, the actors jubilate delusions ofAlain Chabat And the comic energy deployed forces respect. More than 20 years after its release, this deceitful adventure (Antique Rome) in Egypt remains the best live adaptation action of the little mustachu hero of Goscinny and Uderzo.
Where's Charlie?
With regard to one of the first French feature films to have been shot in 35 mm and then post-produced in digital, Pathé and the Hiventy studio had to turn back unassembled negatives (more than 300 reels of film that had to be cleaned and scanned in 4K). Under the supervision of the production manager Cyril Contejean and the Director of Photography Laurent Dailland, the whole post-production has therefore been carefully reworked (the white dots, hair and other dirt have been perfectly removed), between artisanal methods and modernism (the Topaz software allowing to deupscalate the digital riggings, stored on DTF cassettes, without modifying them).
It should be noted that this restoration took place in four dissimilar colorimetric spaces, in the case of the SDR DCI-P3 (for the SDR cinemas), the HDR DCI-P3 D65 (for the HDR cinemas), the SDR Rec. 709 (for the Blu-ray) and the HDR BT 2020 (for the 4K Ultra HD).
Deprived of Blu-ray in France until then (unlike Germany and his outdated HD master), that is little to say that the images have redone a beauty...
The definitional contribution that jumps to the eyes brings an additional (large) veil of sharpness (evidence on the moustaches/barbs and during the plan referring to the Radeau de La Méduse), many details are recovered (cannot miss that Sicily is called "Mafia" on the map of Europe, that one of the pirates throws in water with a duck buoy and that an Easter egg is stored on the architect's table during the song I Feel Good), the integration of the CGIs is much better (the boats on the Nile) despite a somewhat hard rendering (the wide plans of the César Palace) and the silver texture, wonderfully preserved, benefits from a solid HEVC encoding (except for a few curiously fuzzy seconds).
The new calibration in which the orange-yellows reign finds colors (they had been faded since its video release), is adorned with more bright shades (the blue sky, the red cape of Panoramix) and brilliant (the gilding), strengthens the carnation and heavy old drifts (green on the DVD and rosé on the Blu-ray). The value of the contrasts, finally liberated, shows deep unblocked blacks (the « visit » of the pyramid) and whites with the purity found (the snow, the hairs of Idefix), and the light sources particularly solar increase in intensity without any devolture (not deceptive shine here).
SOUND - THX, it sounds wide
Forget the off-topic reserve of previous soundtracks (Dolby Digital 5.1 for the French DVD and DTS-HD MA 5.1 for the German Blu-ray) and enjoy a Dolby Atmos expansive soundtrack inhabited by a cartoon fever.
Dynamic and very well distributed (it must be said that the new mixing was carried out in collaboration with the sound mixer Thierry Lebon), it benefits from a very detailed localisation of its many effects and the asserted presence of its score. The dialogues are clear (like the echoes that are heard according to the places visited), the spatialization is marked, the rear enclosures are agitated, the verticality of the mixing balances everything that it can (the fauna, the activation of magical powers, the spears of Romans, the extra-fast thrust of trees, the projections of rocks, the flight of doves) and the resumption in the serious astonishment (cf. activation of catapults).
CONCLUSION - By Toutatis, it's a pleasure!
We are in 2024 after Jesus Christ; The whole French popular comedy is occupied by mediocrity... Everything? No! Because a good prank filled with unreduced beaten potache still resists and always resists the invader. Joviality, fighting and men in dress, prepare yourself for a big slice of fun that, thanks to "Cine Boost" (the A/V performances of this 4K Ultra HD are « fantastix »), is even bigger, more beautiful, stronger. In short, a true magic potion cure! And this is a good situation? It's okay, Imhotep.
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