Blu-ray – Edition FR – Puy du Fou Films – 100 min – 25 May 2023
Video format
• Resolution: 1080i/50
• Ratio: 2.65
Soundtrack
• French DTS-HD MA 5.1
• French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
• French
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WORK – Chouan soup
1793. It has been three years since Charette, a former officer of the Royal Navy, retired from his home in Vendée. In the country, the anger of the peasants roared: they appealed to the young retired to take command of the rebellion. The fight for freedom is just beginning...
Promise? The Braveheart French! Reality? New Vercingetorix produced by the Puy du Faux! For without even mentioning the dangerous counter-revolutionary revisionism of the History of France (a royalist leaflet written with big hoofs), this « epic » at the service of the identity right serige in anti-cinema to biased vision.
Thought at the beginning as a docu-fiction to the TV (it can be seen) before going on a crusade in the dark rooms, she forgets any scenography of it and contentes herself with clumsy stacking the scenes (with a voice off trying to paste the pieces and ellipses do you want some) where the out-of-field is king (but what became the battles?) and the epic breath absent. The staging is hard to see (a camera with the shoulder that seems lost), the casting is very uneven (Hugo Becker play Clint Eastwood of the poor in depressive mode), the characters are abandoned all along and only the reconstruction has panache. Mass is said!
IMAGE – Very sad Vendée
Was there a chief operator on the set? That's the question we ask ourselves in front of this dull, flat photograph that evokes the city of Dunkirk on a rainy day!
There is no contrast (almost everything is grey), the colors are funest and the light has a crazy evil to paint. And as if that wasn't enough, encoding this HD transfer is lame (the shadow is barbed with color banding).
Fortunately, even if the sharp can vary from one sequence to another, it remains good enough to remind us that it is a Blu-ray in the player. But by the way, why an interlaced display (from 1080i/50 instead of 1080p/24)?
SON – A plague that's a glory?
A meritorium on all or almost all speakers (the LFE channel does not seem to join the ranks), the multichannel soundtrack makes the part of the (generic) music of Nathan Stornetta, noise and voice (even if sometimes indistinct).
Classic in its form (a priority frontal scene) but no less enveloping with its many ambiances, this mix with the appropriate dynamics ensures The Last Panache !
CONCLUSION – Test of the facts...
In the face of « Revolutionary villains », the « good Catholic monarchists » led by General Charette give the stick to get beaten with this reactionary rewriting of the French Revolution not even saved by its deplorable form... And it is not the Blu-ray edition, not glorifying visually speaking, that could say the opposite!
Artistic note
2
Video quality
5
Audio quality
8
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I imagine Philippe de Villiers ready to get hara-kiri after reading your article. ^^^
We feel the political part of this criticism. For objectivity, we'll come back...
We're looking forward to Barbie's criticism.
1/ It's just anti-cinema.
2/ No political bias, just a woman historian (who had a good laugh at so many fantasies)
3/ Here is my opinion on « Barbie » : If it's not plastic (a stunning artistic direction and timely staging), this satire pop with absurd humor that dynamizes the ringuard and controversial image of her star doll (the casting is great) to make it a feminist icon opposed to patriarchy, yet remains a giant (mal) product placement camouflaged under a layer of pink glitter. More inclusive and therefore more profitable, there is no doubt that #Barbie will (re)sell like buns!
Kiss the wolf! 😙