Source United States | Publisher : Criterion | Release date : 23 November 2021
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 2.39
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
Rated 5 out of 5
Artistic : 9.5 | Video : 10 | Audio : 10
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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 (Dolby Atmos), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The opal of discord
With debt accumulating and tax collectors surrounding it, a volubile New York jeweller risks everything in the hope of staying afloat. But while he makes a risky bet that can lead him to the best shot of his life, his merchandise is stolen...
In the « Big Apple » of the John Cassavetes, this feverish urban thriller in line with the first films of Martin Scorsese (like Mean Streets), here producer, never relax the pressure by constantly multiplying its stakes. And transcended by a Adam Sandler who shines with a thousand fires (by far the best performance of his career), this violently anxious and perpetually moving bad trip, which could have been the work of the Coen brothers If they were cocaineous, they impose themselves as a black diamond as greying as asphyxiating where the toxicity of beings and addiction to the game devour everything on their way. One of the biggest slams of the 2020s!
« This is me! This is how I win. »
IMAGE - Raw diamond
This UHD Dolby Vision transfer (from the original 35 mm negative) supervised by the Safdie brothers in person is visually as impressive as the elegant photography (in the quasi-documentary style in places) of the Safdie brothers. Darius Khondji (Delicatessen, Okja).
The silver patina is displayed with more finesse, the increase of the resolution jumps to the eyes (see buildings in the background), the fine details are otherwise palpable than in HD (the close-ups on the faces of the actors, the different textures of the wardrobe) and no anomaly of encoding comes to disturb the session (an average bitrate of 94.4 Mb/s).
Colder, silverier and darker, the image using WCG/HDR technologies is better suited to the streets of Manhattan. The colorimetric palette, which brings shine to neon shades in the presence of the Canadian singer The Weeknd, is more nuanced and balanced (understand less free electric), the carnation is more natural (the skins are more neutral), the range of contrasts is savourily extended (blacks gain in depth without overflowing into the ambient darkness) and the light sources, sometimes iridescent, have an increased shine (public lighting, more or less sifted interior light, LED projectors of basketball fields) while enjoying a much more precise cladding in the high luminances (the delimitation of bulbs, the appearance of the flaming wick of candles).
SON - Words and words and words 🎶
Rhythmed by frenzied dialogues (a staggering flow of speech) at any moment clear (a feat), this Dolby Atmos soundtrack exceptionally nuanced and provided with a spatialisation with blowing wealth delivers agitated background sounds (the metropolis is fully animated with its cars and passers-by) and experimental music with undisputed synths (signed Daniel Lopatin) faithfully reproduced (on all enclosures). The sequence of the club causes the bass and echo of the basketball in the gymnasium to spread through the heights.
CONCLUSION - Bets open
Ruffled by money and prisoner of a flawed system where pleonexia reigns as a master, a loser with a smile winner in the midst of moral delicacy tries to survive... even though he suffocates in this bubbling drama of Safdie brothers in which everything spins even more on 4K Ultra HD support (joillier A/V services)!
This film was a slap for me, discovered on Netflix on its release, I saw it and saw it again and I still enjoy the same pleasure to the advisor.