Source Germany | Publisher : Capelight Pictures | Release date : 25 August 2023
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 2.39
HDR10+ / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
French DTS-HD MA 5.1
German DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
German
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 7.5 | Video : 7 | Audio : 8
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 : Sony Bravia XR-65A80J (Expert HDR)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The end is near!
In the heart of a city, the inhabitants of a tower wake up one morning and discover that their building is wrapped in opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows – a strange dark material that devours everything that tries to cross it. When trapped, residents try to organize, but to ensure their survival, they gradually succumb to their most primitive instincts, until they sink into horror...
Playing the childish fear of the dark, this extreme confinement invites in the suburbs The Mist (without scary creatures) to better dissect French society not without oppressive pessimism. Moreover, against the background of communalism and survival that push human beings into barbarism, this HLM tower of all horrors (the decor is skillfully exploited) ensures that its inhabitants remain in motion to confront them with extreme dramas (proxeneism, cannibalism, etc.). Therefore, exploring the darkness of the human soul, this ambitious post-apo drama (sometimes too much, cf. the temporal ellipses where some narrative tracks evaporate into nothingness) is a dark originality in the French film landscape.
IMAGE - In confined space
Depressing and peasy, the particularly dark photograph of Christophe Offenstein (a digital capture in very low light) is only marginally improved vis-à-vis the Blu-ray despite much better encoding (video noise being less invasive).
The pique which is rather soft (including large planes) only refines very slightly (decrepitude of the decorations, malsanity of the faces), the colorimetric palette with malady hues browns the yellows and contrasts, a little more sinuous, bring a hint of depth to the images and of vivacity to the light sources. But the bluish blacks are still so and the high luminances are not better capped (at the very beginning for example when the tesses are bathed in light).
In my HLM 🎶
Oppressed by the buzzing and metallic sounds signed Tim Hecker, this multichannel soundtrack encoded in DTS-HD MA makes the part of dialogues (omnipresent) rather than action (very discreet).
While the dynamics remain mostly cloistered in his apartment (with a few shots nearby), mixing remains no less realistic with an efficient spatialization where the economy of effects (perfectly localizable as the cracking of flames) is counterbalanced by the heavy atmosphere of the places. The surrounding enclosures regularly use the stairwell and the LFE channel is hostile to the possible (underwaters are clumsy).
CONCLUSION - Down with solidarity!
Without compromise, this behavioral study of a humanity in the terminal phase is even more disturbing on 4K Ultra HD support (without digging a gulf with its HD counterpart). In the dark and without a way out, prepare for a bottomless despair!
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