Source France | Publisher : Rimini Editions | Release date : 12 September 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.00
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rate 2 of 5
Artistic : 6 | Video : 4 | Audio : 8
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L (Dolby Dark Vision)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Max (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The Middle Way
Jesse Conrad, nine, lives in Seattle with her parents. One day, the family received a surprise visit from a delegation of Buddhist monks from the heart of the Himalayas. They are convinced that Jesse could be the reincarnation of one of their most eminent spiritual leaders, who died nine years earlier, and wish to invite the child to the monastery for testing.
Based on its success with The Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci called Keanu Reeves (in innocence and pacifism) to narrate the story of the great Buddha at the same time as that of a little Dalai Lama who ignores. Didactic and naive, this beautiful spiritual tale way « Buddhism for the losers » (where non-violence, meditation and reincarnation are addressed) however venerates too much the gentle manicheism of fable (an excess of reverence) to elevate beyond the textbooks for Ricans (surprising landscapes of postcard included) that it is.
« I was born to reach enlightenment and free all creatures from suffering. »
IMAGE - Mystical Journey
Completed by Cinecittà in 2022 under the supervision of the director of photography Vittorio Storaro from « separation masters », this new 4K restoration that blows hot and cold arrives us via a solid UHD Dolby Vision transfer despite a compression that can happen to wave (an average bitrate of only 48 Mbit/s).
The master is very clean, the stability of the frame is evident throughout and the level of detail, clearly increased (a 35 mm capture for the XX century and 65 mm for Siddhartha's life), reveals more refined skin textures as well as more subtle textile fibres than on the previous Blu-ray. However, the plans are again structured in Univisium 2.00 (in lieu of the original format 2.39), resulting in an image loss of the order of 16% (which is not nothing), and the thickness of the rendering (sometimes softened by a strand of DNR), coupled with a large uplift of granularity (which has at least been preserved) in the dark, betrays the use of intermediate elements (not original negatives) during restoration. But that's not all...
Because as in the past, more precisely during the first edition Arrow Films (who no longer wishes to collaborate with him since) Crystal Plumage Bird, the legendary opioid leader has taken a violent colorimetric revisionism. Vittorio Storaro, James Cameron of photography (cf. article Aliens, Abyss, True Lies and Titanic – L) ?
Disputable (and the word is frankly weak) at all possible because ultra-filtered in places (so much so that there are only a few touch of colors left in Seattle), the new calibration caricature more than ever the visual disparities between the East (hot and spiritual) and the West (cold and materialistic). The emerald city is thus covered with a glacial monochromatic blue where the « Little Tibet » flashbacks are only stifling gilding (with a sun that burns absolutely everything). For the subtlety of the point (of the level of a CP), we will go back...
But then, for what reason(s) many other plans were spared by this massacre, realistic hues with vibrating primary (red kesas) preserved? Bâcle work whose unpleasant heterogeneity spoils viewing at regular intervals, as the green yellow drifts of certain sequences (Immagine Ritrovata worked on it or well) and the paleness of the scenes in low light (because of black take off) tend to prove. But Buddha be praised, the high luminances are, for the most part at least (when excessive filtering allows), better capped (solar radiation, luminous reflections). Average Peak Nits was measured at 223 cd/m2 and MaxCCL at 10,000 nits (!).
SON - Ya Devi Sarvabhuteshu
Proposed in 5.1 (24-bit, 4209 kbps) and 2.0 surround (24-bit, 1907 kbps), two tracks very close to each other even if the first one is more precise at the rear, the VO with mainly frontal sounds still delivers small effects in the surrounds (children in the courtyard of the Temple, lightnings)... Unfortunately, an impossibility for VF 2.0 dual mono (24-bit, 2100 kbps).
In any case, it is to a mix (a little encroached by French dubbing) well planned and rather balanced that we have to deal with where the superb music of Ryūichi Sakamoto go through all available channels (so more or less numerous depending on the soundtrack selected). The dynamics are effective, the dialogues are clear (even if sometimes deaf in Molière's language) and the LFE channel is not much used (nothing abnormal in view of the work).
CONCLUSION - Know your dharma
Nestled in spirituality, this inspiring quest that meditates on on « Brahma homes » will stimulate reflection and introspection among the general public. Yet, favoring a clash of cultures more clumsy than before (due to a questionable 4K restoration), this guided tour into the world of Buddhism risks losing disciples...
And that's a shame since this beautiful 4K Ultra HD edition created by Rimini Editions is accompanied by a particularly rich bonus section with as unreleased supplements: Like a fable (a 35 min interview with cinema critic Piero Spila), Be Paid to Study (a 19 min interview with artistic director Gianni Giovagnoni) and True and false (photos of the scenery of the film commented by Gianni Giovagnoni for 23 minutes).
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