7 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.5 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
A story about a beautiful Milanese shop clerk (Lucia Bosé) who briefly becomes a movie star. She soon discovers than she is fenced in and humiliated, with a new and rich husband who can't tolerate her romantic scenes -- he prefers her to play Joan of Arc, with disastrous consequences.
Starring: Lucia Bosé, Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi, Ivan Desny, Alain CunyForeign | 100% |
Drama | 89% |
Romance | 24% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
English
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
DVD copy
Region B (locked)
Movie | 4.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
Michelangelo Antonioni's "La signora senza camelie" a.k.a. "The Lady Without Camelias" (1953) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Eureka Entertainment. The supplemental features on the disc include the film's original Italian theatrical trailer; short introduction and a video interview with film critic and teacher Gabe Clinger. The disc also arrives with a lengthy booklet containing newly translated critical pieces about the film, excerpts with Michelangelo Antonioni, and a lengthy debate between the Italian director and critic Luigi Chiarini on the subject of the film. In Italian, with optional English subtitles for the main feature. Region-B "locked".
Don't cry, Clara. Your time will come.
Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Michelangelo Antonioni's La signora senza camelie arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Eureka Entertainment.
After years of waiting to get a decent English-friendly SDVD release of La signora senza camelie, which never materialized, we now have a beautiful new Blu-ray release. Quite unbelievable, really. Let's hope that Il Grido, L'Avventura, La notte, and L'ecclise are not too far behind. It would be a very, very special day when they are finally announced on Blu-ray.
La signora senza camelie looks absolutely beautiful. Fine object detail is exceptionally strong, clarity fantastic, and contrast levels a lot better than I expected them to be. Color reproduction does not disappoint either - the blacks are rich and well saturated while the variety of grays and whites are gentle and fresh. The short sequence with the Cafe (see screencapture #5), for instance, looks quite incredible. I did not see any traces of excessive noise reduction - there is a light but steady layer of well resolved grain. I also did not see background flicker, macroblocking patterns, or severe aliasing issues to report in this review. There are a few scenes where some extremely light edge-enhancement is trying to creep in (see screencaptures #18 and 19), but it is never distracting. In fact, in motion it is hardly even noticeable. There are also a few inherited frame skips, but it is fairly obvious that they have been inherited. To sum it all up, the presentation is exceptionally strong, and I could not be any happier with it. (Note: This is a Region-B "locked" Blu-ray disc. Therefore, you must have a native Region-B or Region-Free PS3 or SA in order to access its content).
There is only one audio track on this Blu-ray disc: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (with small portions of English). For the record, Eureka Entertainment have provided optional English subtitles for the main feature.
The Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 track is exceptionally strong. It is quite obvious that it has been thoroughly cleaned up and stabilized. The dialog is crisp, clean, stable, and very easy to follow. There are no balance issues with Giovanni Fusco's music score either. Lastly, I did not detect any disturbing pops, cracks, hissings, or dropouts to report in this review.
There was never a quality English-friendly SDVD release of Michelangelo Antonioni's La signora senza camelie. To have the film now on Blu-ray is an incredible treat. Bravo Eureka Entertainment. You cannot afford not to have La signora senza camelie (and Le amiche) in your collections, folks. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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