4K Ultra HD – Edition FR – The Smoker Cat – 109 min – 05 November 2021
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 4K
• Standard HDR: HDR10
• Ratio: 1.37
Soundtrack
• Tagalog DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
• French
• English
It is brought to the attention of our dear readers as well as the viewing equipment specified and used by each tester of the MaG team, the rendering may differ from one installation to another, whether or not it is calibrated, as well as personal preferences and expectations may influence the rating. Moreover, the images in the article are not representative of the edition tested.
WORK – For the love of my country
Turing's wife, a Filipino worker-printer, is pregnant and they are indebted. In this situation, Turing signs a commitment not to participate in any social movement. When the strike broke out in his company, he did not engage with his companions. Also, the couple is alone and without help. That's when Turing took part in a robbery...
Presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, this politically committed and deeply alive social drama is a hymn to freedom that, by making us follow modest workers trying to overcome their difficult living conditions, slips his militant message while managing to grasp the atmosphere of a country abused by an unprecedented economic crisis.
The narration is fluid, the twists abound, the tension goes crescendo, the direction of actors is very accurate and the staging, mobile and alert, adheres to its protagonists, touching for the most part. A Work « punch » where critical fury is unleashed rightfully.
IMAGE – Hello Philippines!
Scanned in 5K at VDM from negative images stored in France, then restored in 4K in 2020 by Le chat qui fume, Bayan Ko took advantage of a treatment of choice for his transition to Ultra High Definition.
Cleaned with care and perfectly stabilized, the image encoded in HDR10 (it's rare in this publisher) is pleasantly organic in a few low light planes near where the grain (a beautiful finesse the rest of the time) « flash » This one.
The definition, which is very solid, only fluctuates in rare places (plans « Stolen » of the inaugural manifestation), the piqué is more sharp than in HD (cf. the precision of the faces and the backgrounds), the warm colors are as strong (this is noticeable on the reds), the contrasts are better worked (the whites are purer) despite the blacks sometimes a little light and the lights, which reveal a slightly increased brightness (especially in the night clubs), do not in any way leave the photograph sum all natural of the work.
SON – My homeland
A little flat perhaps but above all with a clearness to any test, this soundtrack proposed in DTS-HD MA 2.0 mono (d
The clear dialogues are never stifled, the frontal opening is better than expected (especially when there is a crowd), the realism of the atmospheres plunges us into the streets of Manila and the dynamics are relatively effective.
CONCLUSION – Anger Rumbles
Limited to 1000 copies and dominated by red, this edition rich in supplements, presented in a beautiful three-part digipack, contains within it an unhoped-for 4K Ultra HD disc (a global exclusivity) that calls with all its strength to do justice to strikers!
Artistic note
8
Video quality
8.5
Audio quality
8
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