7.7 | / 10 |
Users | 3.2 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.2 |
On a futuristic oil rig, a man has aged prematurely because he has lost the ability to dream. To reverse the aging process, he kidnaps children from the local harbor town so that he can steal their dreams.
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Ron PerlmanForeign | 100% |
Drama | 44% |
Surreal | 40% |
Sci-Fi | Insignificant |
Fantasy | Insignificant |
Adventure | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.84:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
French: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (192 kbps)
English, English SDH
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 2.5 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
After wowing audiences with 1991’s “Delicatessen,” co-directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet revive their blazing idiosyncrasies with 1995’s “The City of Los Children,” which attempts to top their previous collaboration with a new wave of Terry Gilliam-inspired oddity and extremity that’s meticulously designed, with the production absolutely determined to create a screen space crowded with nightmares and misadventures, tilted with defined French style.
With such outstanding design accomplishments offered during the movie, it's a shame actual HD clarity is somewhat missing from "The City of Lost Children" Blu-ray. The AVC encoded image (1.84:1 aspect ratio) presentation has extreme difficulty with delineation, offering solid blacks for almost anything that isn't blasted with light. Frame information is swallowed, leaving true detail to carefully illuminated close-ups, which carry necessary skin textures and costuming extremity. Colors are intentionally sickly and register as intended, along with skintones. Grain isn't pronounced, with mild filtering present. Some banding and noise are detected.
The 2.0 DTS-HD MA sound mix handles comfortably, leading with evocative atmospherics that carry the wetness of the feature, along with echoed environments and metallic interiors. Dialogue exchanges are crisp and defined, handling a forceful range that goes from screaming to soft child-actor subtleties. Scoring is complimentary, carrying the emotional movements of the effort with proper instrumentation.
It's cold to the touch, but vibrancy remains in "The City of Lost Children," which delivers charmingly strange performances and a decent sense of escalation as the plot thickens to a certain degree. Perhaps dramatic appetites aren't satisfied in full, but when it comes to the world-building of Caro and Jeunet, getting lost in their specialized vision is almost enough to please.
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