Boringly self-indulgent French crap. I have nothing against french films, as some are in my top list (Jean de Florette, etc). But this was so terribly boring that I could only watch it at x4 speed, to see if anything mildly interesting might develop - it didn't.
I picked this up for well under £5 in a discount bargain bin after having seen the film a few months before on TV. Had I paid more money for it I would have been deeply disappointed and possibly would have taken it back for a refund. This is without question one of the worst DVD releases I've ever seen. The film has been transferred in the 4:3 ratio (the cinema releases was shot in the 2.35:1 anamorphic ratio, so at least 50% of the image has been cropped) and the sound has been reproduced in a distorted 2.0 mono. Added to that, the colours that had seemed so vibrant and appealing on the TV broadcast are now dull and muddy; whilst the flashback scenes, which employ a great deal of subtitles are so fuzzy that the on screen text is often hard to make out. ... Read More:
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I picked this up for well under £5 in a discount bargain bin after having seen the film a few months before on TV. Had I paid more money for it I would have been deeply disappointed and possibly would have taken it back for a refund. This is without question one of the worst DVD releases I've ever seen. The film has been transferred in the 4:3 ratio (the cinema releases was shot in the 2.35:1 anamorphic ratio, so at least 50% of the image has been cropped) and the sound has been reproduced in a distorted 2.0 mono. Added to that, the colours that had seemed so vibrant and appealing on the TV broadcast are now dull and muddy; whilst the flashback scenes, which employ a great deal of subtitles are so fuzzy that the on screen text is often hard to make out. ... Read More:
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Boringly self-indulgent French crap. I have nothing against french films, as some are in my top list (Jean de Florette, etc). But this was so terribly boring that I could only watch it at x4 speed, to see if anything mildly interesting might develop - it didn't.
Boringly self-indulgent French crap. I have nothing against french films, as some are in my top list (Jean de Florette, etc). But this was so terribly boring that I could only watch it at x4 speed, to see if anything mildly interesting might develop - it didn't.
Boringly self-indulgent French crap. I have nothing against french films, as some are in my top list (Jean de Florette, etc). But this was so terribly boring that I could only watch it at x4 speed, to see if anything mildly interesting might develop - it didn't.
Boringly self-indulgent French crap. I have nothing against french films, as some are in my top list (Jean de Florette, etc). But this was so terribly boring that I could only watch it at x4 speed, to see if anything mildly interesting might develop - it didn't.
Boringly self-indulgent French crap. I have nothing against french films, as some are in my top list (Jean de Florette, etc). But this was so terribly boring that I could only watch it at x4 speed, to see if anything mildly interesting might develop - it didn't.
Boringly self-indulgent French crap. I have nothing against french films, as some are in my top list (Jean de Florette, etc). But this was so terribly boring that I could only watch it at x4 speed, to see if anything mildly interesting might develop - it didn't.