Source Germany | Publisher : Medien Turbine | Release date : 30 November 2023
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 2.39
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
German Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
German
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
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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 (Dolby Atmos), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The Wizard of PsychoOz
Located on the family farm and isolated from everything, Pearl must take care of his sick father under the authoritarian control of his mother, a strict and pious woman. Yet, attracted by the seductive world of films that she watches without restraint, she dreams of a glamorous life...
While pornography comes in a world of puritans where abstinence is carried to the nudes, an anti-heroine flolding and deliciously subversive not possessing the « factor X » is going to be dictated by his impulses to better escape from his psychological imprisonment. And embodied by the hallucinating performance of Mia Goth, this tragic figure with repressed dreams, deceiving in a microcosm all in corrupt colors and vintage decorations (to better pasticher the Hollywood golden age), people of almost all planes this horrific peloch whose (melo)drama, disturbing because feeding on the evils of society, supplants a yet striking graphic violence. Be careful, prequel demented!
« - Please, no! I won't tell anyone! Please, I wear! No! Please. I'll do anything you want! - It's not about what I want anymore, Mitzy. It's about making the best of what I have. »
IMAGE - Hate is in the pre
Showing exemplary fidelity to the atypical photography ofEliot Rockett, in this case a digital 6K capture (refined in 4K) filtered in post-production to soften the frame (using defocalisation to mimic the process of printing of the era), regain the vivacity of the drawings Technicolor 3 strips and apply a thin layer of grain, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer with encoded much stronger than that of its HD counterpart (the granularity being much more homogeneous) is a wonder to look at.
The definition is much better (see details in the background), the textures are better defined (while voluntarily remaining uncertain) and the colorimetric palette, extremely reckless and with deliberately artificial appearance (like So much the wind), has increased vibrance (the petulance of the blue skies, the lenght of the lipstick and the cherry dress of Pearl, the almost fluorescent verdony of the meadows) as well as additional shades (the sunset is no longer yellowish but orange) like those that tint with rose the beautiful cotton clouds.
As for contrasts, they give a better harmony between the lightest and darkest components of the image. Blacks gain in depth without anything hidden in the shadows (the passages in the cellar) and whites perceive a radiance more than extended. It's also notable when Pearl, during her first dance dream, is caught by a single projector. Nits climb in the beam of light without the abyssal blacks weakening for a single moment. Very (but very) bright, the diurnal exteriors are so dazzling than in CSD (with a MaxCCL measured at 999 cd/m2) that they appear veiled on the Blu-ray.
SOUND - Star Dreams
Equipped with subtle spatialisation (birds, insects and environmental sounds such as those of the small town express themselves at the four corners of the listening room) and a very dynamic score (a worrying score signed Tyler Bates and Tim Williams turning away the motifs of the 1920s), this soundtrack Dolby Atmos here and there brindezingue takes on an incredible verticality when the storm bursts, the rain strikes, the ravens croak, the flag floats and the planes fly. The dialogues are clearly centered and the bass, even if rarely invited, remember our good memory during a dream of Pearl where explosions and fireworks make the walls cunningly vibrate.
CONCLUSION - The Seventh Obsession
Adoubted by a Martin Scorsese first fascinated and then troubled, this horrific drama (an episode of X and MaXXXine) where the Hollywood dream breaks on the wall of the real blows his deaf rage into an even more striking burst of violence on 4K Ultra HD support. Crazy help from this aesthetic recreation shaped by Ti West, the A/V benefits support the imbalance of this girl on fire!
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