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The Look aka Charlotte Rampling: The Look [Blu-ray]
(Angelina Maccarone, 2011)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: Prounen Film Video: Lorber Films
Disc: Region: 'A' (as verified by the Momitsu region FREE Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:38:35.900 Disc Size: 24,982,530,515 bytes Feature Size: 22,918,070,208 bytes Video Bitrate: 27.86 Mbps Chapters: 12 Case: Standard Blu-ray case Release date: April 10th, 2012
Video: Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: LPCM Audio English 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Subtitles: English (burned-in for the French)
Extras: • Trailer (1:38)• Gallery
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Description: In this intellectual travelogue La Légende
Charlotte Rampling muses with friends and colleagues on
celebrity, age, desire and love. Rampling debates and
cogitates with creative as diverse as photographers Peter
Lindbergh and Juergen Teller and writer Paul Auster as she
travels from Paris to New York. She converses in cafés and
houseboats, and delves into the very essence of life, death
and The Look. *** A biographical study of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling (Babylon A.D., Swimming Pool), told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with footage from some of Rampling's most famous films, this "self-portrait through others" is a revealing look at one of our most iconic screen stars. *** This unique documentary about Charlotte Rampling features the stress sitting down to conduct interviews about her with... a number of artists who have worked with her or know her. That footage is interspersed with clips from some of her best movies. Among the people she sits down with are Joe Fleury, Peter Lindbergh, and author Paul Auster.
The Film: Actors spend their lives being defined by other people: the characters they play, the directors who shape their performances, the photographers who light them, the journalists who analyze them, and the fans who love them. Angelina Maccarone’s documentary Charlotte Rampling: The Look gives the acclaimed British actress an opportunity to turn the tables. Maccarone provides the frame, but Rampling fills it, talking about her life and art, and giving her opinions about aging, beauty, sexuality, passion, and pretense. Rampling knows she was fortunate to be born photogenic—with heavy eyelids that give her a look of perpetual world-weariness—but she’s tried to capitalize on her good genes by taking on controversial roles in movies like Georgy Girl and The Night Porter, then throwing all of herself into a project. She takes these gigs seriously. Excerpt from The Onion A.V. Club located HERE
A lesson to be gleaned from “Charlotte Rampling: The Look,”
Angelina Maccarone’s fascinating and frustrating documentary portrait of
an enigmatic star, might be that it would be foolish to suppose that Ms.
Rampling is anything like the transgressive women she portrays on the
screen. The same is true of her photographic image, that of a
heavy-lidded femme fatale. Could “The Look” be an accident of
physiognomy? In this evasive film neither the director nor the star is
about to speculate.
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. Charlotte Rampling: The Look used the same consistent production attributes for the entire documentary and looks fine on Blu-ray from Lorber. The single-layered transfer exports a decent image with some depth, reasonably tight lines and acceptable contrast. There really isn't much more to say - the title sequence is interlaced but the feature is progressive. It gave me a worry-free presentation with Rampling interviewed in the foreground of some interesting backdrops. It's super than SD - but I don't think it was a big factor in the value of the documentary - which was enjoyable.
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Audio :Lossless linear PCM 2.0 stereo at 1536 kbps. It easily handles the dialogue - zero effects and no need for any surround. Competent, clean and unremarkable. The track transfer does its job as intended and expected. The only subtitles are obligatory when there is some French spoken near the end of the documentary. My Momitsu has identified it as being a region 'A'-locked.
Extras : Nothing but a trailer (and other Lorber trailers) and the, largely unnecessary, 'stills gallery'.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze April 11th, 2012
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