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(aka "The Beautiful Captive" )
directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
France 1983
In contemporary parlance, Alain Robbe-Grillet’s “La Belle Captive”
(1983) might best be understood as a mashup or perhaps a proto-mashup.
Based on a “collaborative” novel by Robbe-Grillet and René Magritte
(even though Magritte was already dead), the story employs Magritte’s
art work as the inspiration for a noir-ish detective story that also
relies heavily on classical music and borrows liberally from the
tradition of the vampire film: mysterious leather-clad boss-lady Sara
Zeitgeist (Cyrielle Claire) appears to be an homage to the infamous Irma
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Theatrical Release: Feb 16, 1983 (France)
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Comparison:
Koch Lorber - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Second Sight - Region 2 - PAL vs. Olive Films - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Big thanks to Christopher Long and to Per-Olof Strandberg for the DVD screen captures!
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Koch Lorber - Region 1 - NTSC LEFT
2) Second Sight - Region 2 - PAL MIDDLE
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Koch Lorber Region 1 - NTSC |
Second Sight Region 2 - PAL |
Olive Films - Region 'A' - Blu-ray |
Runtime | 85 min. | 1:24:48 (4% PAL speedup) | 1:28:25.842 |
Video |
1.66:1 Original Aspect Ratio |
1:1.66 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
1080P Single-layered
Blu-ray Disc Size: 23,286,714,163 bytesFeature: 22,075,754,496 bytes Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 29.99 Mbps |
NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes. |
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Audio | French | French (Dolby Digital 2.0) | DTS-HD Master Audio French 1560 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1560 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) |
Subtitles | English | English (Forced) | English, none |
Features |
Release Information: Studio: Koch Lorber Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 12 |
Release Information: Studio: Second Sight Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 17 |
Release Information: Disc Size: 23,286,714,163 bytesFeature: 22,075,754,496 bytes Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 29.99 Mbps Edition Details:
• Trailer (3:10) |
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NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. ADDITION: Olive Films - Region 'A' - Blu-ray - January 2015': The Olive transfer is dual-layered with a very high bitrate and probably looks about as good as La Belle Captive can on digital. There is a shade more information in the 1080P frame and colors show some depth - overall, it looks quite good in-motion. Olive use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel at 1560 kbps 2in the original French-language. We hear Franz Schubert's Le quinzième quatuor (Streichquartett Nr. 15 op. 161. D. 887) performed by Alban Berg Quartett and it sounds quite remarkable via the lossless. There are English subtitles on the region 'A'-locked Blu-ray disc. The only extra is a trailer in 1080P. La Belle Captive fits in well with Alain Robbe-Grillet's oeuvre of oddly compelling, sexy and very visual works. The director's fans will definitely appreciate this Blu-ray a/v.*** ADDITION- Second Sight UK - September 09:
Second
Sight (UK) gives La Belle Captive on a single layered disc occupying
4.11 GB of space. This anamorphic transfer is in PAL standard and region
2 locked. ***
ON THE KOCH: The transfer looks a bit underlit throughout, but the colors are fairly sharp - they could be better, but for Koch Lorber this isn't a bad job. I don't know if it is a progressive transfer or not, but I didn't catch any obvious examples of combing, which used to be a big problem for this studio. The image is definitely soft in some spots, as you can see in some of the screen captures below. Overall, it's a adequate transfer, but nothing more.
Unfortunately, there are no extras besides a three minute French
trailer for the film.
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