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directed by Agnieszka Holland
France 1992
Agnieszka Holland based the screenplay for
her film on a newspaper article that she'd read: a nine-year-old boy
disappears from his family home and returns, suddenly, six years later.
While keeping us hooked on the mystery aspect of the story (is the new
Olivier really the same boy?), Holland's main interest clearly lies in
exploring the psychological tensions that are provoked within the family by
the disappearance and return of the son. |
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Theatrical Release: 1992
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DVD Review: Bluebell Films - Region 2 - PAL
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Bluebell Films Region 2 - PAL |
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Runtime | 1:43:59 (4% PAL speedup) | |
Video |
1.66:1 Aspect Ratio |
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Audio | French (Dolby 2.0) | |
Subtitles | English (non-removable) | |
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Release Information: Studio: Bluebell Films Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 16 |
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It's a cause for celebration that this marvellous film has finally arrived on DVD, and in an English-friendly release. However, this is a real barebones edition: single-layer, no menus (just a Play Movie screen), no subtitle option (the large white English subtitles are ingrained in the image), and no extras of any kind, not even cast bios or a trailer.
The image is non-anamorphic. I don't
know if the 1.66:1 ratio used here is correct; the Internet Movie
Database says 1.85:1, in which case some cropping has occurred in the
transfer to DVD. Image quality is acceptable but unremarkable: dull
colours and soft detail, but with no significant print damage apart from
a few speckles. Edge enhancement and compression artifacts are
occasionally visible, and may be troublesome on a large screen. That
compression problems should arise is hardly surprising given that the
104-minute running time has been squeezed into 3.04Gb, less than
three-quarters of the available space on the single-layer disc. |
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