8.2 | / 10 |
Users | 3.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.5 | |
Overall | 4.4 |
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Susse Wold, Anne Louise HassingDrama | 100% |
Foreign | 75% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080/50i
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Danish: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Danish: LPCM 2.0
English
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region B (locked)
Movie | 5.0 | |
Video | 5.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 0.5 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
Winner of Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's "Jagten" a.k.a "The Hunt" (2012) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Arrow Films. The supplemental feature on this release is an original theatrical trailer for the film. In Danish, with optional English subtitles for the main feature. Region-B "locked".
The hunted
Presented in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1, encoded with MEPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080/50i transfer, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Arrow Films.
Shot with the Arri Alexa Plus camera, The Hunt looks mighty impressive on Blu-ray. The high-definition transfer is encoded in 1080/50i, but it actually contains progressive frames. This means that there is absolutely no motion-judder whatsoever. To be clear, this is essentially a solid progressive transfer "locked" inside a 1080/50i encode.
Detail is simply astonishing. During close-ups and larger panoramic shots even extremely small objects are very easy to see. When daylight is not prevalent, depth is also fantastic (see screencapture #3). Sharpness levels are also very impressive, but there isn't even a whiff of artificial sharpening. Color are exceptionally rich yet very natural. Additionally, there are no purely transfer specific anomalies, such as banding and aliasing patterns. There are no serious stability issues to report in this review either. All in all, this is a fantastic presentation that should please enormously fans of The Hunt. (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 are two standard audio tracks on this Blu-ray disc: Danish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Danish LPCM 2.0. For the record, Arrow Films have provided optional English subtitles for the main feature. When turned on, they split the image frame and the black bar below it.
The lossless 5.1 opens up the film very well in all the right places. This does not mean that there is an impressive amount of surround movement; rather that there is a very good range of nuanced dynamics that provide select sequences with very pleasing depth. Casual sounds and noises are also enhanced very well. (See the hunt at the end of the film). The dialog is always exceptionally crisp, stable, and very easy to follow. The English translation is excellent.
Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt is a masterful film, truly impossible to forget. Mads Mikkelsen, who recently also appeared in the terrific A Royal Affair, is tremendous in it. It will be such a shame if North American distributors ignored The Hunt as it is one of the very best films to be released theatrically in 2012. If you could play Region-B "locked" discs, adding this one to your collections should be a top priority. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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