SourceFrance |Publisher: Spectrum Films |Release date: 15 June 2023
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 1.85
Dolby Vision/ BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
MandarinDTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 10 | Audio : 8
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Test equipment and condition(Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster: Philips 65OLED908 (Dolby Vision Filmmaker)
Sources: Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant: Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - 2001, Taipei Odyssey
Vicky works at night in a nightclub while her boyfriend Hao-hao is unemployed. The latter is very jealous and closely monitors her. She can't stand him anymore and goes to her friend Jack, a Zen mafia.
Amer and twilight, this picture of Taiwanese youth of the beginning of the century (exceeded by the present, without clear horizon and in the grip of artificial paradises) painted byHou Hsiao-hsien, gently contemplates the disconnected moments of life (temporalities intertwine) led by the beautiful spleen of the sensual and elusiveShu Qi, whose desperate quest for deliverance (with diffuse torpor and detached melancholy) numbs as much as it exalts.
IMAGE - Magnifier
Exposed in Dolby Vision (the HDR calibration was commissioned by the publisher for the design of this edition), this 4K restoration carried out in 2021 by the laboratory LMark Lee Ping Bin.
The master is as stable as it is clean, the silver patina has been fully preserved (unlike many restorations initiated by Asia), the contribution in terms of definition is significant (the innumerable blurries of the lens are an artistic will), the fineness of details knows a good forward indisputable (faces, furniture in the first plane) and the compression, despite the difficulty of several passages, is imperturbable.
The particularly bigrated and extensively worked colorimetric palette displays generously without having to suffer from the usual drifts of the laboratory (the fidelity to the source is therefore preserved), the contrasts that are optimal deliver measured deep blacks and aerial whites (the snow mantle in Japan), and the light sources come innerver night-clubs and apartments with new acuity (cf. black light).
SOUND - Love disorders
While the musical loops ofLim Giong(an intoxicating techno score that mixes zenitude and hovering) overlap and repeat each other in order to dilute the human voice (which remains intelligible on the central speaker), this soundtrack essentially frontal (the rear channels distill some atmospheres) resulting from an original magnetic mixing, deploys a dynamic highly suitable (when the box music resonates) despite a certain lack of roundness (the bass are very light).
CONCLUSION - Time recovered
At the take of excesses of any kind, this hypnotic teen chronicle that tells its time through a look to the past (that of Vicky's memories), is a sensory experience of every moment that is even more fully experienced in 4K Ultra HD (the A/V performances put in trance)!
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