6.3 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a sendup of Voltaire's 'Candide'. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.
Starring: Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James CoburnErotic | 100% |
Comedy | Insignificant |
Adventure | Insignificant |
Fantasy | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
None
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (C untested)
Movie | 1.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 2.5 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
I’m not sure how much cocaine was snorted and acid was dropped during the production of 1968’s “Candy,” but it wasn’t nearly enough. A psychedelic journey into amorous encounters and farcical adventures, “Candy” is meant to represent the shifting creative interests of the time, taking a freewheeling look at sex and control, with a screenplay by Buck Henry trying to make sense of a novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. It’s loud, wild, and carefree movie, and it’s an absolute mess that mistakes length for importance. “Candy” is difficult to digest, more appealing as a road map of bad ideas than the mind-bomb experience director Christian Marquand intends to create.
Dealing with a kaleidoscopic visual palette, "Candy" shows some age during the AVC encoded image (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation. Colors are slightly muted, looking a little flavorless with costuming and set decoration, while skintones are more neutral than natural. Detail is passable but never wonderful, at its best with close-ups, which identify thick make-up application. Distances are satisfactorily preserved. Delineation is passable, while grain holds filmic texture. Source reveals speckling and scratches, but no overt points of damage.
The 2.0 DTS-HD MA sound mix deals with extensive ADR work, making dialogue exchanges pronounced and inherently artificial, preserving intelligibility. Clarity isn't threatened, but shrillness remains, hitting painful peaks with scoring and soundtrack selections, which register thin and sharp. Atmospherics are detectible but not pronounced.
"Candy" comes from the "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" school of screen insanity, but little presented here is worth the time invested, especially when it becomes clear that Marquand doesn't have a vision for the picture, just a loose appreciation for excess, fueled by an abundance of cashed-in favors.
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