4K Ultra HD – Edition FR – The Smoker Cat – 93 min – 15 February 2022
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 4K
• Standard HDR: CSD
• Ratio: 1.66
Soundtrack
• French DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
• English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
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WORK – The Cabosses of Life
Berg is a young stuntman. During a number, Bella, her partner and co-pilot were killed. The latter's brother, Léandro, who had an almost incestuous passion for his sister, held Berg responsible and thought only of revenge.
Deeply anchored in the 1980s, this French polar with the beautiful skewer of popular actors is an authentic bisserie « with hair », where the misguided performances and lack of credibility are counterbalanced by an assumed bad taste, a nawak staging as lyric as well as frantic, and a solitary antihero performed by a Daniel Auteuil taciturne.
IMAGE – In the bluish shadow of the night
Restored in 4K by the publisher from the original negatives, this SDR copy with dense blacks risks however cascades pushing the limits of its HD counterpart... Even though the few white dots and the few diet drops of compression are still racing.
The already very suitable definition of Blu-ray is slightly increased (the texture of the background is more detailed), the details gain in precision (faces, outfits, environments) and more surprising (no HDR encoding for reminder), the colorimetric palette benefits from a small enhancement of the primary (cf. the vigour of the reds) where some light sources are completely invigorated (as the sign of the security agency and flames).
SON – The flute of melancholy
Even though she stays « Limited » a mono mixing, this soundtrack with ubiquitous atmospheres, tonic music, striking dialogues and convincing frontal opening, has stopped rubbing the Peugeot 305 Break engine.
CONCLUSION – Dogs are dropped?
To exorcise the traumas of the past, The Smoker Cat makes available this edition limited to 1000 copies (presented in a superb three-part digipack) not to forget to talk with Jean-Louis Daniel, the director, within a friendly bonus section. In the depths of the night, the Paris of the 80s has never been so « Mimi » Hey!
Artistic note
6
Video quality
8
Audio quality
8
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