7.1 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.5 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
A movie shot in a single take about Victoria, a runaway party girl, who's asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town. Their wild night of partying turns into a bank robbery.
Starring: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Max Mauff, Burak YigitForeign | 100% |
Drama | 82% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Crime | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
German: LPCM 2.0
English, English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region B (locked)
Movie | 4.5 | |
Video | 5.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 3.5 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
Winner of multiple awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, Sebastian Schipper's "Victoria" (2015) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Curzon Artificial Eye. The supplemental features on the disc include an original trailer for the film; casting scenes; camera test; and audio commentary with director Sebastian Schipper. In German and English, with optional English and English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-B "locked".
Blue euphoria
Presented in an aspect ratio of 2.40:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Sebastian Schipper's Victoria arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye.
The film was shot digitally and under very unique conditions. Indeed, similar to Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark, Victoria is essentially one long continuous shot -- there are no standard cuts and the lighting is fully organic. This is very important to remember because the minor fluctuations that emerge throughout the film are in fact native limitations. Even during the darker nighttime/club footage, however, depth is typically excellent. Clarity is also outstanding, through occasionally while the camera moves around the main protagonists some heavy shadows can have an obvious impact on it. Colors are natural and stable. Image stability is excellent. Lastly, there are no serious encoding anomalies to report in our review. (Note: This is a Region-B "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-B or Region-Free player in order to access its content).
There are two standard audio tracks on this Blu-ray release: German DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and German LPCM 2.0 (with portions of broken English). Optional English and English SDH subtitles are provided for the main feature. When turned on, they appear inside the image frame.
I viewed the film with the 5.1 track, but I think that the 2.0 track is most likely just as effective. The film has a very fluid organic sound design that basically places the viewer right in the middle of the action. What this means is that there are segments where some of the dialog can be slightly uneven, while elsewhere random sounds and noises can be somewhat overexposed. In this film these types of fluctuations are in fact very effective. There are no audio dropouts or digital distortions to report in our review.
I was fortunate to see Sebastian Schipper's Victoria long before it was released on Blu-ray and thought that it deserved all the praise that it received at various festivals last year. The concept behind it is risky, but the end result is absolutely fantastic. Now that there have been so many reviews of this film it is probably impossible to see it without knowing at least a tiny bit about it, but if for some reason you have avoided it and the reviews, see it unprepared. I think that it is one of last year's very best films. Curzon Artificial Eye's technical presentation of Victoria is excellent. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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