6.6 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
Starring: Vic Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer, Michiel de Jong, Koray AlayForeign | 100% |
Drama | 35% |
Crime | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Danish: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English, English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region free
Movie | 1.5 | |
Video | 5.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Isabella Eklöf's "Holiday" (2018) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Anti-Worlds/Powerhouse Films. The supplemental features on the disc include an original trailer for the film; Q&A session with the director; deleted scene; and more. Also included with the release is a 28-page illustrated booklet with writings on the film and technical credits. In Danish and English, with optional English and English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-Free.
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.39:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Holiday arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Anti-Worlds/Powerhouse Films.
The film looks superb in high-definition. I actually tried upscaling it to 4K and found it extremely difficult to spot any noticeable discrepancies because the 1080p visuals looked absolutely astonishing. Also, the fluidity, which is usually where native and upscaled to 4K content shows superiority, looked identical to my eyes. So, depth, clarity, and delineation are very impressive during well-lit and darker footage. Color reproduction is superb as well, especially during darker footage where some more subtle nuances emerge. There are no stability issues. Also, there are no encoding anomalies to report. Outstanding technical presentation. (Note: This is a Region-Free Blu-ray release. Therefore, you will be able to play it on your player regardless of your geographical location. For the record, there is no problematic PAL or 1080/50i content preceding the disc's main menu).
There is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (with some portions of Danish). Optional English and English SDH subtitles are provided for the main feature. When turned on, they appear inside the image frame.
I don't know if the film has a fully digital soundtrack, but if I had to guess I would say that it probably does and the lossless track is essentially a replica of the final studio master. The audio is very clean, sharp, and with strong depth that is usually present on modern soundtracks. Dynamic activity is modest, but this is how the soundtrack was created.
It is the new trend -- discovering 'victims' everywhere and then blaming their misfortune and misery on some fundamental 'flaw' that has supposedly transformed society into a stunningly cruel oppressor. Isabella Eklöf's directorial debut is a byproduct of this trend and plays a very predictable and weak blame game that is quite simply impossible to take seriously. It did nothing for me because I was instantly able to tell that behind the game is just another nihilistic shocker. This upcoming release from Anti-Worlds/Powerhouse Films is sourced from a fantastic master and offers a 'reference quality' presentation of the film.
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