7.8 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.5 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, William ShimellDrama | 100% |
Foreign | 62% |
Romance | 19% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0
48kHz, 24-bit
English, English SDH
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 5.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
Winner of Oscar Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Michael Haneke's "Amour" (2012) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The supplemental features on the disc include an original trailer for the film; making of featurette; and Q&A session with director Michael Haneke. In French, with optional English and English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-A "locked".
The couple
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Michael Haneke's Amour arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
The high-definition transfer is essentially identical to the one Artificial Eye used for their Blu-ray release of Amour in the United Kingdom. Shot with the Arri Alexa camera, the film has a crisp and very clean look. Where light is restricted some of the indoor footage could look a bit subdued, but depth and clarity are always excellent. Colors are lush, natural, and very stable. Compression is very good. Overall image stability is also outstanding. To sum it all up, this is an excellent presentation of Amour that should please folks in North America who have been waiting patently waiting to see the film on Blu-ray. (Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free PS3 or SA in order to access its content).
There is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0. For the record, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has provided optional English and English SDH subtitles for the main feature.
Because Amour does not have a prominent music score, dynamic intensity is quite limited. However, depth and especially clarity are simply terrific. The dialog is always very stable, clean, and exceptionally easy to follow. For the record, there are no pops, audio dropouts or distortions to report in this review. The English translation is excellent. (But it is not identical to that used on the Artificial Eye Blu-ray release).
Michael Haneke's Amour comes to Blu-ray in North America rather late, but I think that folks who have been patiently waiting for a local release will be very pleased with Sony Pictures' technical presentation. In my opinion, this is one of the year's must-own Blu-ray releases. Do not miss it, folks. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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