7.5 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.5 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities...
Starring: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Mustafa KiliçForeign | 100% |
Drama | 94% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.38:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Turkish: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Turkish: LPCM 2.0
DTS-HD MA: 48kHz, 24-bit, LPCM: 48kHz, 16-bit
English
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region B (locked)
Movie | 5.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
Winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Winter Sleep" (2014) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors New Wave Films. The supplemental features on the disc include an original trailer for the film and documentary on the making of the film. In Turkish, with optional English subtitles for the main feature. Region-B "locked".
"Whether it's because I've grown old, or I've gone mad, or because I've become a different man, think what you like."
Presented in an aspect ratio of 2.38:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors New Wave Films.
Shot with Sony's CineAlta F65 camera, the film looks exceptionally crisp and vibrant. Many of the daylight close-ups essentially look like digital photographs (see screencapture #8). The wider panoramic shots also boast exceptional fluidity and a terrific range of nuanced natural colors (see screencapture #11). During the darker indoor footage light is captured in different ways that could affect shadow definition, but the occasional fluctuations are indeed part of the film's intended visual style. The film is nearly three and a half hours long, but compression is very good. There are a few sequences where some extremely light compression artifacts try to sneak in, but they are virtually impossible to spot (see the coat in screencapture #8). Lastly, there are no stability issues to report in this review. All in all, this is a solid presentation of Winter Sleep that makes it very easy to appreciate the vision of its creator. (Note: This is a Region-B "locked" Blu-ray release. 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 release: Turkish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Turkish LPCM 2.0 (with a few exchanges in English). Optional English subtitles have been provided for the main feature. When turned on, they split the image frame and the black bar below it.
I viewed the film with the 5.1 track and was very pleased with it, but I tested the 2.0 track and think that it also serves it well. Excluding a few gentle piano themes, the film has a very organic sound design that does not benefit greatly when moved to 5.1. The dialog is exceptionally crisp, very stable, and always easy to follow. There are no audio dropouts or digital distortions to report in this review.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest film, Winter Sleep, has the depth and intelligence that make so many of Ingmar Bergman's films worth seeing again and again. It is set in an ancient town in the historic Cappadocia region in Central Anatolia, but it tackles a number of contemporary issues we have all been forced to ponder. At the moment, in Region-B land the film is available on an English-friendly Blu-ray only in the United Kingdom via local distributors New Wave Films. In North America, Mongrel Media have just released the film in Canada (see our listing here). In the United States, Adopt Films and Kino Lorber will bring it to Blu-ray in May (see our listing here). VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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