Interstellar

WORK – No, but say, is it good or not?

In the near future, the Earth that is swept away by frequent sandstorms has become hostile to humanity, which is experiencing a serious food crisis. Cooper, a former pilot and engineer who became a farmer, is recruited by NASA to pilot the Endurance, an experimental spaceship whose mission will be to lead a group of explorers to discover a new living planet to colonize for humanity...

Both epic spatial epic, reflexive philosophical tale (haunted by 2001, Space Odyssey) and melodrama, this masterpiece of the genre is an odyssey of humanist science-fiction full of suspense and dizzying action scenes that explores space and time at the same time as love (parental, filial or universal).

IMAGE – Everyone's beautiful, are you sure?

Drawn from a new 4K scan, this UHD HDR10 transfer headed by the director (colour correction and HDR calibration) leads its magnificent images (very different between the 2.40 35 mm and 1.78 IMAX sequences) to borders unexplored by the previous Blu-ray.

Less dark and much more precise (the softness of its HD counterpart is no longer the journey), they also enjoy and above all a much warmer colorimetric palette, reinforced contrasts (they are no longer fluctuating) and other brighter light sources (see stars and control lights). And where the passages in full frame format release even more phenomenal details, the scenes captured in 35 mm delight in a more finer solved grain.

But the perfection being rarely of this world, there are two planes (in the very first minutes) where compression makes its own (pixels in the low lights).

SON – He who has ears to hear, hear!

Always proposed in DTS-HD MA 5.1 (a will of Christopher Nolan), here is a singular mix of the quaint dynamics and the seismic bass (too?) where Hans Zimmer's abstract and floating score is fixed above dialogues and atmospheres (very present) for an optimal musical development.

And despite the absence of Dolby Atmos encoding, the acoustic richness of these two soundtracks lends itself particularly well to the DSP 3D (Dolby Surround or DTS Neural:X) audio receivers. So don't hesitate to activate them to gain height.

CONCLUSION – Every good thing has an end...

This vital search for a living planet takes off in Ultra HD Blu-ray with a stunning A/V presentation that surpasses the previous Blu-ray. Ready to solve the problem of gravitational propulsion?