Source France | Publisher : Studiocanal | Release date 14 June 2023
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 2.35
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
English
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 9 | Audio : 7
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 (Dolby Vision Luminous)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - End tenderness
Camille loves her husband, Paul, a writer who lives in Rome. Jérémy Prokosch, an American producer, asked Paul to rewrite the screenplay of a film that Fritz Lang shot in Italy. And, suddenly, without blatant reasons, but which can be guessed, Camille sees that she no longer loves her husband, more precisely, than she despises him.
Based on the eponymous novelAlberto Moravia, the most beautiful film of Jean‐Luc Godard is a marital tragedy at the Mankiewicz where at the very heart of a cinema that wonders about its future (the spectre of its History haunts its recent modernism), the fragility of the feelings of « of the Western world » You're blowing up in the open.
Separated by an impassable abyss (the story of a misunderstanding between an injured woman and an indifferent man), our present Ulysses and Penelope (the mythological couple of Odyssey), masterfully incarnated by the wonderfully complex Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli, sway like puppets in a deserted setting whose partitions illustrate their rupture before they even join the kingdom of Poseidon (the producer). And while the gods have spoken, the dramatic end reminds us that we must not be maddened with love. A classic... modern cinema!
IMAGE - Nude in the sun
Since each plan is an art work, it is little to say that the present restoration in DCP 4K (resulting from a scan of the original 35 mm negative and the intermediary operated between 2021 and 2023 in the Hiventy laboratory) and ProRes UHD Dolby Vision (with the reference copy reworked in 2002 by the Ops Chef, documented references and more than 40 hours of calibration) was expected at the turn... And by chance, the result is simply sumptuous.
A few scratches (at the first scene between Bardot and Piccoli), the alterations and other dusts on the film were erased. The overall sharpness of the frame (advandied by a hair for more information) has been enhanced with close-ups with much clearer textures and really more precise backgrounds. The piqué is in fact superior and the gain in relief undeniable. Instabilities are only a distant memory, the silver structure has been (happily) preserved and there is no problem related to compression (at least with the overlay DV).
First more « land to land » before being dominated by the deep blue of the sea, the red of the villa and the yellow of the sun, the splendid photograph signed Raoul Coutard regains all its brilliance. The colorimetric palette that is in no way distant from the choices of the director regains its original saturations (the primary ones are fantastic), the contrasts are otherwise more coherent (blacks are no longer washed and Paul's white shirt is immaculate) and the light sources are displayed with a natural disarming (cf. daylight) in addition to restoring the details in the high and low luminances.
SON - Capri, it's over 🎵
Neither breath nor distortion for this monophonic soundtrack with appreciable cleanliness whose atmospheres of the countryside and the seafront are broadcast with rejoicing clarity. But if the orchestra Georges Delerue seems to have been summoned to the full, he sometimes expresses himself with so much force that dialogues may find it difficult to detach from it.
- Say, you love her...
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its release, this French (and global) cinema monument offers a 4K Ultra HD edition in large pump (a two-part digipack beautifully illustrated by the artist Laurent Durieux) accompanied by a collector's booklet drawn up by Jean-Baptiste Thoret, two short films by Jacques Rozier and very good documentary Once upon a time... The Mepris. The masterpiece of the New Wave like you never saw or possessed it? Clearly yes!
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