4K Ultra HD – Edition EN – Sony Pictures – 117 min – 03 May 2017
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 4K
• Standard HDR: HDR10
• Ratio: 2.39
Soundtrack
• English Dolby Atmos
• Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
• English
• French
It is brought to the attention of our dear readers as well as the viewing equipment specified and used by each tester of the MaG team, the rendering may differ from one installation to another, whether or not it is calibrated, as well as personal preferences and expectations may influence the rating. Moreover, the images in the article are not representative of the edition tested.
WORK – Sleeping Beauty
While 5,000 sleepy passengers for a long time travel in space to a new planet, two of them are accidentally drawn from their artificial sleep 90 years too early. Jim and Aurora must now accept the idea of passing the rest of their existence aboard the spacecraft. As they gradually experience an undeniable attraction, they discover that the ship is in serious danger. The lives of thousands of sleeping passengers are in their hands...
This meeting between Titanic and Gravity is a minimalist space romance as captivating as well as neat where the complicity of the star couple, the dramatic power of the concept, the beauty of cold spaces and enchanting music take us far away.
IMAGE – On board Starship Avalon
Whether in HD or UHD, the clean and luminous image of the work is just sublime. The clarity is dazzling, the stunning definition, the striking details (even if it is missing in 1080p on the background of the decorations, Jim's hairiness or the skin texture of Aurora), the extraordinary colorimetric palette and the contrasts to the taquet.
On the WCG side, the colors that are somewhat warmed up (the sequences in the bar) are richer (blue and mordored tones) and saturated (the dark red hues), where the HDR contribution is visible with much more petant whites, multiply stars because much more sparkling, more energetic lighting (neon, holograms) and blacks at increased depth.
SON – In space, no one wants you to love
An exemplary Dolby Atmos mix (but unfortunately reserved for the VO) that ensures the acoustic performance with goldsmith precision and Herculean power.
The dialogues are clear, the spatialization is ultra-enveloping, the front scene is extremely dynamic, the effects (the barman's movements, the impacts of the asteroids) and atmospheres (the ship's noises, the mood music, the pressure under the water) are very close, the rear scene gives all that it has, the score is just as fair as it is wide, and the bass are busy shaking the sound space (the thrust of the reactor) with what is needed of weight and impact. As far as the height channels are concerned, they are solicited as soon as the narrative requires (breathing of the characters in their combination, waterfalls, alarms, escape of flames, etc.), i.e. quite often.
While the VF SD remains more than probative (DTS-HD MA 5.1 on Blu-ray), they nevertheless suffer from comparison (if only at the level of the density of the surrounds) with its 3D cosœur.
CONCLUSION – What's important is the trip!
A ship, two people and 90 years in front of them... Sentenced to live and die on a space ship in perpetual transit, our two space travellers prefer to líidyl solitude, whose cosmic radiation is extremely high in 4K Ultra HD!
Artistic note
8
Video quality
10
Audio quality
10
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