Welcome to The 4K Ultra HD Bazaarvo monthly appointment to find out all about the latest 4K releases and the visual and audio experience they offer. Born of his author's passion for physical media and his desire to share with you the pleasures of cinema at home in his most accomplished form, each issue is the opportunity for the celest wolf to test and evaluate the audio/video performances of many discs released in France and internationally, guiding you through the subtleties of the HDR, the nuances of the WCG and the immersion of 3D soundtracks.
Whether you're a seasoned cinephile looking for the best editions of the market or an amateur wishing to maximize its home-cinema installation, follow the recommendations of our expert and prepare to be amazed by a quality image and sound you thought so far reserved for cinemas. Good reading and enjoy every issue to come! #WeLovePhysicalMedia 📀✨
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.
Video broadcaster (QD-OLED 4K) : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L
Universal reader : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference
Multimedia player : R_volution PlayerPro 8K Signature Edition
Pregnant (7.1.4): Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar Plus, SB-4000
Image Modes : Professional (SDR or HDR) | Dolby Dark Vision | IMAX Enhanced
Listening modes : Dolby Atmos | Dolby Surround | DTS:X | DTS Neural:X
Contents
Hand
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Second Sight | Release date : 23 June 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7.5 | Video : 10 | Audio : 9
WORK – If the ghostly member steals the star from the rest of the casting (attaching anyway), this fearful thriller scratches where it bothers (grieving and dissociation, abandonment and loneliness, addiction and social pressure) makes a finger of honor to the codes of the genre to adapt them to the TikTok generation. The camera slides like a funeral caress and each possession, like a fleeting story, is a slap that shakes the real. A work that squeezes hard... and doesn't let go.
IMAGE – As clean as a morgue scalpel before use, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer (from a digital capture) deploys its haunts with exemplary readability. And if it is true that the carnal details, the spectral light, the carved contrasts and the discordant colorimetric palette (blue/cadaveric greens contrast with the infernal orange/yellows) attend in 1080p to a board of Yes 2.0, they participate here in a real possession that screams to the dead his perfection.
SON – Despite the absence of Dolby Atmos mixing present on the US disc, this track DTS-HD MA 5.1 blows into the ear with a malice sum all ghostly. The surrounding effects haunt the scene, the dynamics are as unpredictable as an upset mind, and the basses, coming out of the top, roar like a hammering comeback under the floor. A soundtrack to the accomplished separation, whose joys during viral challenges quickly give way to the terror coming from beyond.
M.A.L. : Aquatic Mutant in Liberty
Source United States | Publisher : Kino Lorber | Release date : 17 June 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6.5 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 7.5
WORK – If she navigates in the pictures of a stinging scenario, this series B submarine floats thanks to its claustrophobic atmosphere and its metallic decorations oozing the 80s. A vintage troubled water dive where the real danger is not his bodybuilded mollusc, but the jumping bolts, the leaking locks, the flashing meters and the unwatertight decisions of a crew at the edge of the nerve crisis. Here, more emotional torpedoes than seafood mandibles.
IMAGE – Despite the abysses*, this 4K restoration (served by Studiochannel) from the original negative 35 mm shines with a thousand lights. The semi-obscure photograph resurfaces by more threatening exteriors (cf. the natural depth of blacks), better illuminated interiors and more balanced colours (blues and reds). The encoding supports the depths, the silver grain becomes more refined and the details, much clearer (including composite planes), do not drown.
SON – Drawn from the Dolby Stereo mixing period, the soundtrack 2.0 surround does not make waves, the acoustic sea being rather calm. The dynamics remain on the surface, the bass are not abyssal (the monster grunts for lack of roaring) and spatialization, even if efficient during damage (the cracks of the metal, the water jets), quite discreet. By contrast, the score of Harry Manfredini (Friday 13) has much to offer in terms of scope and tension. Runway 5.1 takes water*.
* While the Blu-ray provided with this edition is without it, one plan (the submarine's approach before mooring at the observation pod in the very first few minutes) is repeated twice (to the detriment of another). Encoded on four channels, alternative 5.1 is only a decal of his consœur 2.0... with the dialogues and effects of the central channel that leak abnormally back.
Fury
Source France | Publisher : Sony Pictures | Release date 23 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.40
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 10
WORK – Under the low sky of an armored hell, David Ayer (Bright, The Beekeeper) orchestrate a ballet of fire where humanity waves. Inside an M4 Sherman, a rolling tomb turned into a confessional, the actors are engaged in unfailing acts. Outside, in a rifted landscape, the conflict stinks of powder, fear and cabosed humanity. And in the second line, back We have to save Private Ryan., this apocalypse of mud and steel at dusk of the Second World War takes on the guts.
IMAGE – The Blu-ray version already excelled, but its too much contrast stifled the blacks. The 4K Ultra HD corrects the shot: the grays finally breathe, revealing a thousand details buried in the tank. The roughness of the grain is more uniform, sharper, and the cold palette even more sorry, except when the (higher) fire mixes in. The result is a more nuanced, more faithful image where each bright flash (tracing balls) comes out more in the dark. In DV, the mechanical shroud is better woven.
SON – The soundtrack shakes the walls, in VO as in VF: everything explodes, vibrates, whirls. But in Atmos, it is with otherwise more striking realism (increased power and directivity, threatening verticality) that the horrors of the war strike the five crew members of the Fury. Between the movement of the tank, the whistle of the shells, the fall of debris, the tingling of the bullets (up to the impact on the shielding) and the noise of steps on the moving turret, the immersion is total.
Jurassic Park
Source France | Publisher : Universal Pictures | Release date : 25 June 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
French SDR 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 7 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Thirty years later, the roaring of this masterpiece has not been extinguished: impacting staging, magical special effects and dinos more true than nature always haunt us as at first cry. Crichton dreamed of science, Spielberg redefined the modern blockbuster and the spectators, not without a hint of terror, marveled for a legend in the future of 7th art. Thanks to his claw, this classic that does not fossilize even engraved his DNA in pop culture.
IMAGE – If the attraction is the same (no new scans), the park finally opens its doors to the DV. The noise reducer continues to give chills and the definition of the CGI 2K dates from the Mesozoic era. However, better compression requires, the details of the planes captured in 35 mm are better chewed. And since the HDR10 limitation has been lifted, the calibration becomes more consistent (the pink drifts have been muzzled) and the high luminances are bursting. But from there to get a ticket...
SON – More biteful than the previous track DTS:X (absent from this edition), the VO Dolby Atmos reinforces the verticality of the effects (the rotors of the helicopter, the rolling rain, the roaring of the T-Rex), the engagement of the score and the depth of the serious (the heavy step of Rexy). A boon for this mixing designed by the director of his Gary Rydstrom, whose design and spatialization are still as spectacular. Unchanged, the VF lossy is very frail in comparison.
Dark City
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Arrow Films | Release date : 23 June 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 5 out of 5
Artistic : 10 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Too unknown, this existential nightmare in black trench-coat, where reality slides between the fingers like a dream that was thought to be awakened, is a defective anticipatory gem under neon in which decors valorize between urban gothic and German expressionism. A labyrinth of fog, amnesia and architectures whose exit, at the edge of identity, leads to the oration of an immobile dusk. Who are we when the light goes out?
IMAGE – Thanks to a brand new 4K restoration supervised by the photo director Dariusz Wolski from the original 35 mm negatives (and a 2K master for the additions of the Directors Cut), each plan regains hypnotic sharpness. Blacks are of an abyssal density, contrasts sculpt faces like buried memories, and the silver grain remains intact, as a imprint of the subconscious. In the shadows, the Dolby Vision reveals a light with supernatural brightness.
SON – The new Atmos track envelops the listener in a deaf threat as immersive as it is hallucinated, where verticality (rain, reverberated voice, machinery) and the more explicit distribution of sound objects (the murmurs of the « Foreigners » and remodelling of the city) amplify the ambient paranoia. More classical but always efficient, track 5.1 retains the qualities of the original mix: fortuitous dynamics, sensory spatialization, evocative music and oppressive bass.
The Amateur
Source France | Publisher : 20th Century Studios | Release date : 13 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – In this espionage thriller where introversion becomes a fatal weapon, indescended Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody, Dying can wait) checks the keyboard for the gun. But less Bond than computer bug, this brain hunts his wife with lines of code. A programme of targeted extermination, both programmatic and precipitated (the script shortcuts were not hacked), where the suspense connected to a vintage network that leaves him out of competition.
IMAGE – Discreet but with a formidable precision (see the passage to Marseille), this 4K globe-trotter transfer has a constant sharpness and refined details in relation to the Blu-ray... even if, apart from a pursuit where cobalt blue replaces an incandescent red, the WAOUH effect is not revenge. The lights remain felted and the shades, sometimes cold, sometimes brown, remain silent. But thanks to the contribution of the Dolby Vision, the shadows gain in relief.
SON – Without ever looking for the big show, this carefully but cautiously spatialized blending unfolds urban atmospheres that infiltrate at the back, a partition comfortably installed in the acoustic space and dialogues as clear as Charlie Heller's convictions: cold, clear, and without blunder. Due to a more tense dynamic and a falsely latent verticality (in which the pool scene makes waves), the VO Dolby Atmos aims more accurately than the VF DD+ 7.1.
Snow White (2025)
Source France | Publisher : Disney | Release date 23 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 10 | Audio : 10
WORK – Against all odds, the Snow White 2025 does not chew the poisoned apple of the failed live action. Rachel Zegler (West Side Story, Hunger Games) embodies a modern princess, gentle but determined, with a voice that would make birds blush. The songs are exciting, the romance complicit and the kawaii creatures in CGI tastyly animated. Early bashing? A mirror with alouettes: the film deserves much better than its facade polemics.
IMAGE – Boosted by the Dolby Vision which magnifies the contrasts and magical effects, this sumptuous UHD transfer seems to have been polished by the seven « dwarfs » themselves. Night scenes in the forest reveal a more striking depth, while the textures of costumes and decorations are even more bluffing. Marked by fairytale pastel tones where the golden lights shine with a thousand lights, the colorimetric palette evokes the illustrations of classic tales.
SON – Amp and immersive, the VO Atmos makes a princely entrance to the kingdom of home-cinema. The spatialization (very aerial) makes wildlife and spells roar, the voices are clear even at the heart of the enchanted choirs, the dynamic juggle skillfully between sylvester murmurs and orchestral flights, the bass roam under the hoofs and vibrate during the incantations, and the music that makes wonders makes you want to whistle while working. In VF, the voice magic is broken.
The Monkey
Source France | Publisher : Metropolitan Video | Release date : 12 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.00
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6.5 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – When a creepy mechanical monkey becomes the conductor of a macabre slapstick, Osgood Perkins (Gretel & Hansel, Longlegs) defuses fear to better emphasize the absurdity of wanting to control the inevitable: death. A horrific comedy with treps as unlikely as grotesque, in which the mower is in a mood to laugh. But if the toy never misses its tambourine, the scenario (adapted from a Stephen King text) leaves tension and emotion behind the scenes.
IMAGE – Bathed in deep blacks and dull hues, this UHD HDR10 transfer (from digital capture) does not ape the quality and tames the possibilities of support. The definition is more sharpened (suits, skin, viscera), the reds reach a completely different intensity (where they are shy on the Blu-ray), the darkness becomes more readable and the light sources benefit from a certain gain in precision. Some artifacts nevertheless come to play the trouble-fests.
SON – A well-feeling horror carnival that swings its effects like explosive bananas and convokes bass straight out of the grunts of King Kong. Spaceisation gives this Final destination Burlesque an almost tactile relief, mortal spouts make full use of the surrounds, the dynamic hits hard, the dialogues are clear and the music, even if discreet, is well set. Two solid DTS-HD MA 5.1 tracks. Good integration of (natural) dubbing on VF.
Fallout - Season 1
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 09 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 9 | Audio : 10
WORK – This fusion between irradiated western and biting satire is a retrofuturist bomb at the atomic casting (including Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell) which, with its philosophers' guiles and its secretful Vaults, explodes the codes of post-apocalyptic television. And since the series enriches the video game franchise that it recycles, this adaptation makes a precise shot in the Wasteland adaptations. « Okey dokey »It's validated! So, ready to reload the Pip-Boy?
IMAGE – Heavy UHD Dolby Vision where, in a ruined America blocked in the 50s, retro heat coexistes with blafarde desolation. The colours are stimulated by the WCG Stimpack, the radioactive dust is so clear that it crosses the video diffuser (the 35 mm grain is caviar) and the light sources radiate more than a bomb A (see the reflections on the assisted armors of the Steel Brotherhood). Apart from the first episode, which coughs a little bit of macrobloc, the encoding follows.
SON – Where audio was as bland as a canned steak when it was broadcast on Premium Video, this Dolby Atmos track blows up the bunker. A symphony of chaos whose loudspeakers (active in heights), such as sentries ready to spot the slightest acoustic mutant, transform the listening room into a battlefield. By the way, the bass would panic a Vertibird in the middle of the flight. Hidden behind a steel door, the small VF 5.1 is painful.
Warfare
Source United States | Publisher : A24 | Release date 1 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.00
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 10
WORK – In full ambushe, without pause or retreat, this war story catapults us into the heart of chaos, camera to the body and sweat on screen. You breathe the powder there, you scratch the fear there and each plan is a blow of seed. Soldiers are not heroes, conflict has no ideology and survival is the only story. A visceral experience that is not told but is seen: it strikes, it uses and does not leave unharmed... even when tension speaks instead of bullets.
IMAGE – Without ever sacrificing technical finesse, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer does not aim to flatter but to immerse. The details are of surgical clarity, the intentionally desaturated colorimetry is consistent with the words and contrasts, of military rigor, deliver shadow zones (in the besieged apartment) to remarkable legibility and high luminance (explosive flashes) as intense as precise. Granular texture and solidly encoded smoke.
SON – A total immersion that gives the impression of having been parachuted in a conflict zone. Under the combat helmet, spatialization is a tactical ballet, the bass roar like an armoured approach (the demonstrations of force) and the dynamic range, very wide (the bursts of fire), serves a large adrenaline climb. The bullets sound, the debris falls, and the voices appear from all sides. Verticality calibrated (flying gear) and calm oppressing.
Sinners
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 20 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.78, 2.75
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 10
WORK – When Ryan Coogler (Creed, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) transforms a barn into a temple of groove and blood, metaphor on racial segregation and dead cultural appropriation the demons of America. One night in hell which crucifies the blues of the 1930s with full teeth, with Michael B. Jordan (Without remorse) in double dose and vampires swinging on Robert Johnson. Between mystical trance and stylized carnage, this blockbuster keeps pace.
IMAGE – From a film capture 65 mm and presented with a variable ratio from the inside (2.75) to the spectacular (1.78 IMAX) without losing visual consistency, this UHD DV transfer imposes its technical luxury*. The details slice like a razor blade (cotumes, faces, decorations), the colorimetric palette sings just, the shadows sculpt the depth and the brightness takes on a formidable elegance. More limited in all areas (see shades), Blu-ray cannot compete.
SON – Demonstration of sound control, this Dolby Atmos mixing envelops space with surgical precision, mixing clear dialogues, subtle atmospheres and acoustic surges worthy of a devil's concert. Verticality is exploited with attention, especially during musical flights* and vampiric assaults, the basses vibrate the walls of the juke joint, and the dynamic screams its rage. In VO as in VF, this blues chapel is badly possessed.
* "The Past, Present and Future" is not just a simple scene, it's a secular prayer where the A/V performances of the present 4K Ultra HD play the sacred... Like music, support becomes a weapon, a mass and a living memory, shaping its future in the face of the oppression of SVOD. Undoubtedly, the cute future sin of the ultimate demos. Try and you'll see!
In the Lost Lands
Source France | Publisher : Metropolitan Video | Release date : 12 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
French
Rated 3 of 5
Artistic : 5 | Video : 9 | Audio : 10
WORK – During this mystical walk that holds on to a post-it, Milla Jovovich is the service badass witch and Dave Bautista the stoic cowboy looking for meaning. A decomplexed B series that mixes genres ( post-apo western, dark fantasy) and takes on its excesses, such as Resident Evil crossing the road to Mad Max and Game of Thrones in a visual chaos with artificiality consumed. Bourrine and proud of being, she remains no less dusty than the decors.
IMAGE – Mongeant Frank Frazetta behind his video game aesthetic, this digital production is particularly brilliant in UHD HDR10. Encoding does not suffer from any drop in diet, the accuracy is even more magical than in 1080p (tatts, costumes), contrasts wander in a better incantated excess (between black ink and inflamed light sources) and desaturated colorimetry, all dressed up, is more vibrant in the dark (cf. red eyes).
SON – An acoustic orgy under steroids that swings its decibels like a witch throwing spells: precise, enveloping and powerful. The bass rumble with the delicacy of an earthquake, the spatialization in fact of the crates, the dialogues (recises without magic) are of great clarity and the music is not lacking in scope. At the back, the dress operates all along. Verticality, the vertigo is there (the cable car, the rain). Plus, the VO takes the piece away.
Minecraft, the film
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 06 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 3 of 5
Artistic : 4 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – If he would have won to stay in the inventory, this strange entertainment adapted from the famous video game eponymous is passed without craft by his communicative energy. But intended for children, the playground is ultra-light, the scenario as unstable as a Creeper and the actors' show (Jack Black, Jason Momoa) outrageous. Hyper-formatted and little focused on the development of narrative biomes, this tote of the universe in blocks is far from breaking bricks!
IMAGE – Even if the real world is only very clumsy to the « sandbox » in CGI, this native 4K production maintained by a well calibrated encoding (but not exemplary) uses mods not supported by the Blu-ray. Fine details, colorimetric palette, black and light source management get a dazzling tag, doped that they are by a DV calibration that takes advantage of it to dig the depth of field with a Netherite Stock.
SON – Despite an initial volume in mode « Peaceful », this Dolby Atmos mixing (in both VO and VF) is in perfect synergy with visuals. Impressive once the cursor has been raised, it level-up with clear dialogues, precise surround placement and judicious use of the height channels (see Piglins riding Ghasts). A sound bubble as soft (day) as fierce (night), where the Nether and action occupy space with nervousness. French translation sweetened.
Wolf Creek
Source France | Publisher : ESC Films | Release date 23 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.78
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – A summit of the cinema of visceral horror, this road trip that turns into a nightmare is a descent to hell in the Australian outback where a croque-mitaine of the bush, half-chasseur half-charognard, embodies a hostile land in which hospitality rhymes with barbarity. And infiltrating every corner like red dust, the dry terror nails us to the ground like a forgotten carcass. In the bloody desert, where silence screams, agony stretches like an endless road.
IMAGE – A sharpened UHD transfer like Mick Taylor's smile: 4K image in 1.78:1 « open matte » offers more sky... and more threat. Despite HDCAM capture, the definition slams (the close-ups on the faces) and each grain of sand seems ready to kill. The Dolby Vision sublimates the contrasts: overwhelming heat by day, greenish glaucosity at night, and black as deep as the killer's intentions. The old DVD is at the bottom of the crater and the new Blu-ray less sharp.
SON – Rhythmed by the deaf tension of François Tétaz's score, this soundtrack that fully exploits the acoustic space (especially in Dolby Atmos to enjoy the fauna and thunderstorm in the heights) is as enveloping (the flora) as it is striking (the inaugural celebration, the explosion, the race-carrying). Less round in its tone, the VF lossless is also less extensive. VO 3D mixed at low level. To enjoy the fatty accent of "Mick", get rid of dubbing.
Hans Zimmer - Live in Prague
Source France | Publisher : Mercury Studios | Release date : 18 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.78
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English LPCM 2.0
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Video : 8 | Audio : 10
IMAGE – This cinematographic opera is getting bigger thanks to a DV calibration* vibrating cobalt blue lighting (more dreamlike than ever) like sensitive strings. The increase in resolution is palpable, and faces like instruments are carved with more precision. If it happens to the shadows to play the capricious divas (as little detailed) and the digital grain to invite awkwardly to the party, the visual score remains brighter than that of the HD disc.
* On some configurations (especially with Panasonic drives), brightness takes a second to adjust after each cut. To remedy this, simply deactivate the Dolby Vision to switch to HDR10. The problem is due to a rate difference between the concert (in 24 i/s) and dynamic metadata (injected into an XML file converted to 23.976 i/s).
SON – Fantastic, the Dolby Atmos track envelopes like a gladiator's dream, holds an interstellar breath and vibrates at the rhythm of the tick-tac of a simmering world. binary flow rate (6742 kbps vs. 6070) and number of dynamic objects (13 vs. 11) revised upwards are sure to mark the difference with the previous Blu-ray. Widely wider and enveloping than the LPCM 2.0 mix, it delivers orchestrations (revised for the scene) with a crystal clear sum.
Cronos
Source France | Publisher : The Films of Camelia | Release date 23 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 8 | Audio : 6.5
WORK – While time heals nothing but corrupts, del Toro (Hellboy, The Labyrinth of Pan, Crimson Peak, Nightmare Alley) signs a bold first feature film, where vampirism is distilled in the workings of an ancient mechanism. And far from the Gothic clichés, this macabre tale, which elegantly bites a baroque aesthetic and palpable melancholy, turns the quest for youth into an organic nightmare. In this place, the thirst of eternity has a taste of rust and loneliness.
IMAGE – Coming from the original 35 mm negative, this 4K restoration supervised by del Toro shines with a new shine: details otherwise more refined, silver grain maintained and contrasts better managed, strengthened by a proof compression. But behind this visual lift, calibration plays the modern alchemists, introducing cyan not without audacity (the Dieter chamber). Surprisingly expanded by a dezoom (1.78 c. 1.85), the frame reveals once occult areas (especially to the left).
SON – Like the cursed mechanism of the beetle, the two audio tracks grin more than they sing... The VO surround lacks oxygen, stifled by its more than limited openness and disorderly spatialization (cf. dialogues sometimes swallowed by a yet narrow score), while the VF dual mono-prioritizes voices (exaggeratedly put forward) to the detriment of atmospheres. It's clean in both cases, but the clarity and acoustic balance are regularly circumvented.
The Blood of Heroes
Source Australia | Publisher : Umbrella Entertainment | Release date : 06 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 6
WORK – Since salvation does not come from gods or weapons, but from a dog skull thrown into the mud, sport becomes religion and every game, a rite of passage... Between Rollerball and Mad Max, this rough dystopia where it plays to exist mix sweat, dust and metal in an arena where humanity clings to its remains. A brutal game transformed into a quest for dignity, in which Rutger Hauer (The Hitcher), twilight gladiator, embodies the silent nobility of the defeated.
IMAGE – As robust as the juggers themselves, this UHD HDR10 transfer encoded by Fidelity in Motion Play first league. The 4K restoration (of the uncut version) supervised by the Op-Chief David Eggby revives the craze and steel looks with striking sharpness. Contrasts are sharp like game chains and colors, earthy and unsaturated*, take the blows. Like forgotten rock fragments on the ground, some white dots remain here and there.
* In the bonuses, the director of photography explains that he voluntarily reduced the saturation of hues (except some reds) to give this version a « look 2024 ». Even if questionable in principle, this revisionism reinforces the ravaged atmosphere and brutality of this declining world, highlighting its harshness and desolation. All in all, a very good decision.
SON – Runway 2.0 surrounds tries to deliver an epic fight... but stumbles into the arena. The persistent breath is not there to reproduce the wind of the post-apo desert and the bass, as if captured in a rusty bunker, saturate twice (while they hit hard during the matches). Closer to a forgotten relic than to a mastered mix, it remains no less faithful to the raw atmosphere of the universe depicted and also allows some stereo enlargements (the spectators).
Novocaine
Source France | Publisher : Paramount Pictures | Release date 30 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7.5 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – Insensitive to pain but not to love, Jack Quaid (sympathically left and naive) plays the Punisher in suit (to save Amber –Prey– Midthunder) in this action comedy where humor is as sharp as fractures. Slapstick way Looney Tunes Under steroids that beats, beats, and makes grimacating, while injecting a good dose of madness into the veins to actuate medium. He certainly doesn't reinvent the wheel, but he hurts where it feels good!
IMAGE – Without blush or special glare, this UHD Dolby Vision presentation is a solid copy of Jacques Jouffret's much too wise photograph (Gran Turismo). The colors therefore remain in retreat, except when the blood red (more intense) emerges as a well-feeling signature. And the same is true for blacks (more dense), far from the depth of a killer look. But sharpness is at the rendezvous (details refined) and the lights, although sober, use a shoot of adrenaline.
SON – The soundtrack Dolby Atmos delivers square spatialization and a dynamic that gently mounts the thriller. Not really an electroshock, but a controlled immersion where the robbery slams well and the bullets whistle with surgical clarity. The surrounds support the action without weakening, the verticality passes cuckoo (the reversal of the ambulance) and the blows carried are painful. Less powerful but well spatialized, the VF lossy can cash.
Ace Ventura, dog and cat detective
Source United States | Publisher : Shout Factory | Release date : 29 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 2.5 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 5 | Audio : 8
WORK – Assured, noisy and furiously funny, the Sherlock Holmes of the kennels arrives with its facial contortions and its logic defying reason to solve a case with the finesse of a rhinoceros in tutu. Pure nonsense where Jim Carrey (Batman Forever, The Truman Show) cabotine deep balloons, but with a comic flair that would make a pitbull mime. Because with him, even the buttocks have more distributed than lawyers in the middle of argument... and they have more humor.
IMAGE – Drawn from the 35 mm negative, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer offers a massive upgrade to detail (cf. feathers, hairs and scales of animals) and contrasts (the evening at Ron Camp). But here, the colors far less bright than in the past give Miami a rehab cure. Could it be a colorimetric space problem knowing that the included Blu-ray is not impacted? Moreover, although very often organic, the silver grain has been filtered here and there.
SON – Solid like the d'Ace banana, track 5.1 is strong forward and straddles back as the « Big Dolphin Bang ». The lawsuits go down, the gunshots go down, and the journalists go down like a pack of hyenas in caffeine. As for the punchlines, engraved in collective memory, they are clear as coconut water. The bass box is low... while the band concert Cannibal Corpse He deserved a big, fat sound!
Mickey 17
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 16 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 10 | Audio : 10
WORK – In this fable of SF that recycles human like a plastic cup, Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, The Host, Parasite) orchestrates a glacial symphony on the exploitation of the body, interstellar colonization and identity in crumbs. Each Mickey (formidable Robert Pattinson) is a proletarian of space sacrificed on the altar of yield, while America still dreams of galactic startup. Without the right to strike, death feeds political satire.
IMAGE – Dignified by a premium clone, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer arrives with unalterable compression. It displays fine details with even more striking clarity, (metallic) colours more accurately nuanced, much more precise shadows (omnipresent) and (very little flashing) lighting with increased realism. More homogeneous than in HD, the granular texture (added in post-prod) allows dystopic decors and CGIs to integrate with organic fluidity.
SON – Enveloping and never overloaded, the VO Atmos is calibrated like a space shuttle. The dialogues are clear, the spatialization is neat (in the claustrophobic interiors as on the icy planet), and the rare scenes of action fully exploit the LFE channel. The music is subtly reproduced and the high channels reinforce immersion at the right times. More frontal, the VF DTS-HD MA 5.1 offers a clear and balanced mix, with a well integrated dubbing.
Sweeney Todd: The Diabolical Barbier on Fleet Street
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 09 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 10 | Audio : 9
WORK – While Johnny Depp (Caribbean Pirates), in the archetype of the Burtonian hero (i.e., marginal, tortured and romantic in his morbid manner), sharpens his social rage to better denounce a crumbling London (Victorian) where the powerful devour the weak, Tim Burton (Batman: The Challenge, Sleepy Hollow) transforms this revenge into a gothic musical where each note is a complaint and each pie, a manifesto. On the edge of a blade, justice is exercised!
IMAGE – The very old Blu-ray VC-1 can be shaved, since the UHD HDR10 transfer (overseas DVD) net slice in quality. Abyssal black, bright whites and bloody reds are avenging from the past, where light in low light and fine textures honour Sweeney's razor. The 35 mm grain is natural, the details surgically accurate and the artifacts absent from the living room. Disbarred from previous greenish drifts, the atmosphere is even more macabre.
SON – From the very beginning, the VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 (Dolby TrueHD 5.1 in the United States) rises like a funeral litany. The orchestra grabs space with sharp multichannel dynamics, deep bass and crystal sharps. Immersion is total, from scrambling alleys to peasy basement, even if the atmospheres are more tenuous than exuberant. Since the songs are not doubled, the most contained VF Dolby Digital 5.1 deserves no interest in it.
Here: The most beautiful years of our life
Source Italy | Publisher : Eagle Pictures | Release date : 23 April 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
Italian
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – An intimate odyssey through time and space, where each plane (shown from a single point of view) becomes a capsule of memory. And delicately exploring the fugacity of the moment, the persistence of the place and the invisible bonds between beings, it reminds us that each corner (a simple family lounge in the present case) is a palimpsest of human stories. Minimalistic but profound, this emotional work proves that sometimes, to travel far, it is enough to stay here.
IMAGE – A visual caress to the surgical definition (from textures to contemplative sharpness), to the subtle chromatic palette (colors breathe at the rhythm of the seasons) and to invisible compression. Each plan becomes a postcard of the intimate, where the digital grain is as discreet as a murmuring and where the HDR10, coming to enhance the games of light, gives lighting a soul. More nuanced, blacks offer exemplary readability to night scenes.
SON – Playing the card of emotional discretion, the VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 embraces silences as much as dialogues not without the atmospheres, which go through the eras, being delivered with a felted elegance. Every noise (the sounds of everyday life) seems to carry the weight of memory and music, delicate and introspective, inserts with modesty. In perfect harmony with the unity of place, spatialization, with almost theatrical precision, transforms the living room into a living character.
Cobra (1986)
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Arrow Films | Release date : 21 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 4.0
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6.5 | Video : 9 | Audio : 8
WORK – A muscular cocktail of the 80s, where Stallone (Rambo, Expendable) embodies a cowboy of modern times as taciturn as his toothpick. Of course, urban violence and speedy justice are addressed (within a scenario on a police armband) with the subtlety of a shotgun pumped in the back, but the threatening atmosphere and punchlines fly. Brut deformation, this action polar is to be considered with solar mounts.
IMAGE – Drawn from the original 35 mm negative, this 4K restoration restores bitant (the DV contribution) to the blurred neon-black aesthetic typical of the Reagan years. Scarlet lights and capricious shadows (as fluctuating at the source) dance like flames in the final furnace, and the colors (more assertive blues and greens) lose their excessive tanning to find natural. The sharpness strikes better (cf. the precision of the details), and the silver grain is not as coarse.
SON – In the face of criminals, each audio track has its own method: the 4.0 offers a more nervous dynamic and punches in full medium, ideal for the batons, while the 5.1 deploys its muscles (lows) on the score, including Angel of the City, with a more sharp spatialization (side effects) than the Night Slasher knife. As for 2.0, more crude, it's 4.0 without surrounds... Cobretti without his car. Without breath or blunder, the replicas are impeccable.
Poseidon
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Arrow Films | Release date : 11 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.38
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Despite a scenario as linear as a liner corridor and characters as deep as a puddle, this remake of the 1972 classic makes waves by betting everything on the big show. So we sail between frantic action, CGI's breaking and suspense at the line, even if the cruise struggles to embark emotionally. In short, a muscular version of Titanic, without DiCaprio but with Kurt Russell (New York 1997), where the heart remained in dry dock.
IMAGE – So clear that we would believe the film freshly shot, this 4K upgrade is worthy of a submarine throne. Thanks to Dolby Vision calibration, the colours and contrasts are enhanced: the primary ones are enriched (including the blues) and the shadow, bathed in emergency lighting with new, otherwise more realistic incandescence. Captation 35 mm obliges, the grain is mounted on board... but it does not take water (at a plane near), like a ship on a calm sea after the storm.
SON – As striking as the old Blu-ray track, the DTS-HD MA 5.1 immerse the listener in an ocean of sounds. The directional effects sound like water jets under pressure, the surrounding activity keeps clapping, the bass roar like the shipwreck itself and the music, which marries the stir of the story, never capsize. If dialogues happen to drown in tumult, they are generally of great clarity. Still on the bridge, this mix is credible.
Until Dawn: Endless Death
Source France | Publisher : Sony Pictures | Release date 27 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – If the intrigue misleads in the woods, the fear stumbles in the temporal loop and the already-saw furniture Glore Valley, this cinematic adaptation of the eponymous video game tries to renew the tension (ludic) every night... by having fun with the codes of the slasher (like a Wendigo with its prey) and by proposing (free) kills worthy of Final destination. But for good horrific entertainment full of ideas and tributes, prefer it The Cabana in the woods.
IMAGE – Ready to trap us in the shadow (95% of the film), this UHD Dolby Vision transfer as sharp as a machete is only rarely haunted by compressive worries (except color banding wandering here and there). The details abound more generously in the hotel where the survivors land, the spectrum of expanded colors pops up like a flashlight in the night and the contrasts, more balanced, display blacks at increased depth and whites at increased purity.
SON – La VO Atmos, véritable cauchemar sonore avec les monstres en stéréo, balance les frissons avec une précision chirurgicale : les couloirs gémissent, les canaux arrière nous traquent comme un tueur masqué dans les bois, et les manifestations verticales ajoutent du danger dans les hauteurs. Immersive et pourvue de dialogues aussi nets que les cris, elle fait aussi voler les décibels comme des éclats d’os. Subwoofer aux aguets. VF comparable (à l’horizontale) au doublage bien intégré.
Fall
Source United States | Publisher : Lionsgate Films | Release date : 19 septembre 2023
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.00
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Déconseillé aux victimes d’acrophobie et aux amateurs de décisions rationnelles, ce survival particulièrement vertigineux est d’une éreintante efficacité malgré des fonds verts très voyants (le syndrome Vertical Limit). Une tour, deux corps et mille frissons, voilà le topo ! Entre selfies mortels et signaux désespérés, le film joue donc avec nos nerfs à 600 mètres du sol. Et si le scénario tient sur un boulon rouillé, la tension, elle, ne lâche jamais prise. Grimper, c’est gagner ?
IMAGE – Comme Becky et Hunter au sommet de l’ancienne tour de transmission, la photographie s’élève en UHD HDR10… Le transfert HEVC révèle des détails insoupçonnés (une précision accrue), les défauts du disque Blu-ray ont presque tous chutés dans le vide (à part quelques solarisations) et la palette colorimétrique, entre fraîcheur et chaleur, accède à une toute autre finesse (cf. les aurores et crépuscules). Pénombre encore un peu bruyante, mais profondeur de champ vertigineuse.
SON – Prenant de l’altitude avec une finesse étonnante, ce mixage 3D offre une immersion sonore vertigineuse. Les effets surround, souvent subtils, enveloppent les protagonistes comme le vent qui hurle au sommet de la tour B67. Les ambiances tourbillonnent presque sans relâche, les dialogues restent limpides (même quand le souffle du vide menace) et les surgissements sonores, notamment liés à la présence de vautours, prennent par surprise. Sans jamais perdre le fil, le vertige est là.
Destination finale: Bloodlines
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 17 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Avec ses morts plus inventives que jamais et son twist généalogique qui transforme le destin en héritage, ce 6e opus ressuscite la saga de la Grande Faucheuse en se jouant des attentes. Le poids du passé devient mortel, chaque détail du quotidien devient suspect et les tueries, entre sadisme cosmique et slapstick morbide, veillent à ce que le hasard devienne instrument de torture. Mémoire de la franchise, Tony Todd (Candyman) revient pour une dernière révérence.
IMAGE – Brillant et sans bavure, ce transfert UHD DV (aussi propre qu’un scalpel avant l’accident fatal) est nettement supérieur au Blu-ray. L’ouverture (durant les 60’s) est si chaleureuse et colorée qu’on en oublierait presque les morts à venir. Moins éclatante mais riche en primaires, la suite adopte une palette plus sombre. Les détails sont chirurgicalement précis (les visages, les décors) et les contrastes solides. Éclat des sources lumineuses plus surnaturel (le salon de tatouage).
SON – Précise, immersive et fatalement efficace, la VO Dolby Atmos est une vraie prédiction sonore. L’effondrement de la Sky View Tower fait s’agiter chaque enceinte comme un cri du destin, les basses du crash ferroviaire secouent les murs comme une ultime mise en garde, et même quand la mort rode à l’arrière et dans les hauteurs, les dialogues restent limpides. Si la créativité acoustique du mixage perdure, la VF lossy n’entend pas aussi bien la Faucheuse affûter sa lame.
Casper
Source France | Publisher : Universal Pictures | Release date : 13 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
French SDR 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Entre rires ectoplasmiques et soupirs nostalgiques, cette comédie fantastique douce-amère hante agréablement nos mémoires depuis 30 ans. Christina Ricci illumine l’écran, Casper fait fondre les cœurs et ses oncles accumulent les pitreries. Parfait pour les petits et les grands enfants, ce divertissement familial sans mièvrerie aucune prouve qu’on peut être transparent et pourtant, profondément attachant. De l’émotion, un soupçon de frissons et surtout, beaucoup de tendresse.
IMAGE – Bien plus soigné que le Blu-ray d’antan, ce transfert UHD Dolby Vision fait revenir d’outre-tombe la finesse du grain 35 mm, la délicate saturation de la palette colorimétrique et l’exquise douceur du piqué (où une légère brume plane sur les effets spéciaux). La profondeur accrue des noirs donne du relief aux pièces et autres couloirs du manoir Whipstaff quand les éclairages, jamais effrayants et plutôt timides, profitent d’une touche bienvenue de réalisme. Mignon tout plein.
SON – Finesse spectrale et verticalité saisissante animent la VO Dolby Atmos. Les fantômes ont une vraie liberté de mouvement, du sol au plafond, comme bon nombre d’effets tourbillonnants. Les basses grondent avec panache, tandis que les surrounds sculptent un écho lugubre dans les recoins les plus hantés. Qu’elle soit murmurée ou rugissante, la musique de James Horner reste limpide et enveloppante. Aucune amélioration côté VF, l’exubérance de sa consœur étant tristement absente.
La Belle et la Bête (1991)
Source France | Publisher : Disney | Release date : 03 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.78
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 10 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9
WORK – À bientôt 35 ans, The Beauty and the Beast reste un chef-d’œuvre de l’animation. L’histoire d’amour est magnifique, les personnages forts et attachants, l’ambiance merveilleusement romantique, les chansons mémorables et les visuels somptueux. Un enchantement de tous les instants où la Bête rêve plus d’humanité que bien des princes, et où la Belle illumine le château par son esprit affûté. L’un des plus beaux DA de la firme aux grandes oreilles avec The Lion King.
IMAGE – Issu d’un sortilège, ce transfert UHD HDR10 est enchanteur : piqué stupéfiant (même le grain du papier se laisse deviner), couleurs plus vives (cf. la densité des primaires) et contrastes magnifiés (blancs plus purs et ombres mieux dessinées), où les sources lumineuses rayonnent d’un éclat nouveau (les éclairages de C’est la fête, les brillances sur la robe dorée de Belle lors du bal). Même si anecdotiques, quelques traces d’aliasing viennent troubler cette perfection.
SON – Malgré des basses en retrait (propres au mix d’origine), comme si Big Ben avait oublié de sonner, voilà des pistes sonores très vivantes : dialogues d’une grande clarté, scène frontale dynamique et surrounds qui dansent comme les assiettes. Bien plus immersive que la VF (précédemment en DTS-HD HRA 7.1), la VO Dolby Atmos bénéficie d’une extension verticale régulièrement franche (oiseaux, tonnerre, pluie, magie) et de séquences musicales plus vibrantes.
Blade Runner - The Final Cut
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 10 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.40
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 5 out of 5
Artistic : 10 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Dans ce rêve brisé néo-futuriste où la ville suinte la décadence et la beauté, Blade Runner transcende le simple polar de SF pour devenir une quête existentielle où les Réplicants, plus humains que les humains, nous renvoient à nos propres zones d’ombre. Harrison Ford est impeccable, Rutger Hauer incandescent, et la mise en scène de Ridley Scott frôle la perfection visuelle. Hypnotique, la mélodie de Vangelis finit de donner une âme à ce chef-d’œuvre… dont le souvenir persiste.
IMAGE – Tel Roy Batty découvrant la beauté du monde avant de s’éteindre, ce transfert UHD HDR10 donne l’impression de voir Blade Runner pour la première fois, les yeux grands ouverts. Le grain 35 mm est somptueux et la netteté, hallucinante, relègue le Blu-ray au rang de souvenir flou. Chaque plan déborde de détails inédits (cf. les jouets mutants de J.F. Sebastien), et les couleurs explosent comme des néons (plus intenses) dans la nuit pluvieuse (et plus abyssale) du Los Angeles de 2019.
SON – Une VO Atmos remixée avec un soin quasi cybernétique où les Spinner fusent latéralement, la pluie (constante) tombe du plafond et la foule grouille tout autour. Inédite jusqu’alors, l’immersion est totale. Les dialogues sont limpides, la dynamique appropriée, et les nappes chargées en basses. Plus agressive mais perdant en respiration (un espace sonore étriqué aux ambiances manquantes), la piste française semble avoir été mixée dans un placard de la Tyrell Corporation.
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