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(aka "Keep Your Right Up")
"Basically an episodic comedy, Jean-Luc Godard's Soigne ta droite a French-Swiss coproduction, features Godard himself as the comic lead, rehearsals of the rock group Rita Mitsouko, a good many gags (some involving golf and travel), and a lot of cameos from well-known French actors, including Jane Birkin, Bernadette Lafont, and Jacques Villeret. The biggest surprise here though is Godard's modification of his own persona: in contrast to the grumpy, would-be sages of First Name: Carmen and King Lear, his benign and ethereal character is positively Keatonian, with echoes of Tati's Monsieur Hulot as well. (Early in the film, he executes a surprisingly deft Keaton-like gag of diving through a car window.) The main comic inspiration, by Godard's own admission, is Jerry Lewis--specifically the airplane sequence in Cracking Up, though what Godard does with it seems even more quizzically eccentric than the model. Godard is also seen grasping a copy of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, which may provide some clues about what he's up to. This isn't one of Godard's best features, though it certainly has its moments, and I much prefer it to his more recent For Ever Mozart." excerpt from Jonathan Rosenbaum's review at the Chicago Reader found HERE |
Theatrical Release: Sept. 19, 1987 - Toronto Film Festival
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Comparison:
Facets - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Olive Film - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Big thanks to Adam Lemke for the DVD Review!
1) Facets - Region 1 - NTSC - LEFT 2) Olive- Region 'A' - Blu-ray RIGHT |
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Facets Region 1 - NTSC |
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Runtime | 1.21.24 | 1:25:42.595 |
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1.33:1
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1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 18,871,809,558 bytesFeature: 18,795,737,088 bytesVideo Bitrate: 26.98 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Audio | mono | DTS-HD Master Audio French 831 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 831 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 1.0 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 16-bit) |
Subtitles | English forced | English (burned-in) |
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Release Information: Studio: Facets Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 16 |
Release Information: Studio: Olive
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1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 18,871,809,558 bytesFeature: 18,795,737,088 bytesVideo Bitrate: 26.98 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Standard Blu-ray Case Chapters 9 |
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NOTE: These Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.
ADDITION: Olive - Region 'A' - Blu-ray (June 2013): Not much parity between these two images. Facets looks like 2nd generation video beside the Olive 1080P. The captures tell more than my words can. Lossless audio, burned-in subs and bare-bones but it still gets the nod over the terminally weak SD. Godard fans can look at the glass half-empty and complain about no extras or burned-in subs or they can be pleased with the dramatic improvement of the video quality.Gary Tooze ***
ON THE DVD: This is a very early DVD release from Facets, a company that certainly has a penchant for disappointing those with a discerning eye for image quality. It actually turns out to be one of the better discs that I’ve come across from them. Sure there are burned-in subtitles that are hard to read at times, and the single-layer disc is ripe with combing, but for once they have put out a disc that seems superior to a VHS tape. The colors are bright, and the image is far from hazy. It’s nice to see this film, which is minor but enjoyable Godard, get a release, even if it’s not in the finest of editions. out of |
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