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Directed by Maxim Ford
UK 2017

 

Our story is set in Eastern Europe before the First World War... Stephanie and Julia are close friends in a small village dominated by the church, a naked swim together on a hot summers day ignites passions in both of them. Julia wants to find a romantic prince to rescue her from her unhappy family, Stephanie to experience all life has to offer. Beautiful Taylor Sands and Daniella Rose star in this visually alluring story with original wonderful melodious music.

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Stephanie and Julia are close friends in a small village dominated by the church, a naked swim together on a hot summers day ignites passions in both of them. Julia wants to find a romantic prince to rescue her from her unhappy family, Stephanie to experience all life has to offer. When Julia’s father hears of her sexual transgression she is sadistically punished and is sent off to an arranged marriage with a policeman in nearby town. Paul a handsome young man drives the horse and coach for Julia and too late reveal his love for her.

Franek, a talented painter and one-time forger, is commission by a brothel to paint a large erotic painting to hang on the brothel wall and excite the patrons. Franek searches for models to pose for him and meets Stephanie. Stephanie falls in love with Franek, but Franek is cold and distant, something in his past holds him back.

Julia marries the Policeman but in the morning finds out the marriage was false and she has been tricked, she runs away.

Franek under Stephanie’s influence has rekindled his love for art and painting, his painting is changing radically into modern new forms.

Julia wandering through the forest comes across young pagan revellers dancing naked around a fire to tribal drums. She meets Paul who has always loved her but losing him after being disorientated by hunger and wild mushrooms.

Excerpt from theOfficial Site located HERE

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Theatrical Release: March 14th, 2017

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Review: Ford - Region 0 - PAL

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Distribution Ford - Region 0 - PAL
Runtime 1:10:12 (4% PAL Speedup)
Video

1.78:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: ~6.71 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.

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Audio

Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps

Subtitles English, None
Features Release Information:
Studio:
Ford

 

1.78:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: ~6.71 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

 

Edition Details:

Cast, Crew, Paintings, Music


DVD Release Date:
March 14th, 2017
Standard Keep Case

Chapters 8

 

 

Comments:

Picture of Beauty is a low budget 2017 film, shot in Poland, on a single-layered DVD with a reasonable bitrate. The 1-hour 10-minute, shot in HD in the 1.78:1 aspect ratio, It looks decent for the SD format without noise or artifacts. The image quality has a few crisp black + white sequences and colors appear true with no manipulation.

There is a standard, lossy, Dolby audio track with little testing as the production doesn't export a lot of separation or aggressive depth. There is a pleasant score by Maciej Kierzkowski - this his first and only film composition credit do far. There are optional English subtitles on this Region-FREE PAL DVD.

The supplements consist of data on Cast, Crew, Paintings and Music with the latter two having video pieces. There is some effort here but a director commentary would have been a better extra feature.

Picture of Beauty strives for both poetic and erotic sensibilities with an appealing artistic theme throughout. It's filled with many lithe, and occasionally naked, Easton European babes. Acting performances are at the lower end of the spectrum but it should be given merit for the attempt - held together reasonably well by director/writer Maxim Ford,  There is some value if you can forgive the production limitations. A fair effort - let's see more! 

Gary Tooze

 


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