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La Bohème Blu-ray
Kultur | 2008 | 100 mins | Not rated | Dec 15, 2009
La Bohème(2008)Music | Romance     Puccini's immortal opera is brought to the screen by Academy Award nominated director Robert Dornhelm, starring opera's "Golden Couple," Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón. For more details about La Bohème on Blu-ray, see the La Bohème Blu-ray Review Starring: Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón Director: Robert Dornhelm La Bohème Blu-ray, Video Quality  La Bohème arrives from Kultur with a sterling 1080i VC-1 encoded transfer. This is one glorious looking film in both its black and white and color sequences. The black and white segments offer superb contrast, probably pumped a bit in post production, with icy whites and deep, inky blacks. The color sequences are quite remarkable, however. While some of the fleshtones are a bit pale (I'm assuming Mimi is made up that way), there is excellent saturation of a really bold palette throughout this piece. Mimi parades around the Parisian streets in a deep crimson gown where the individual strands of the dress' weave can easily be seen. On the other hand, Musetta is clad in a brilliantly bright purple getup which virtually pops off the screen. Depth of field, such as it is in a film this rife with close ups and medium close ups, is excellent, with some splendid detail available in the exterior shots. The Blu-ray does betray the fake snow scenes, especially toward the second half of the film where the superior resolution shows quite clearly this is a soundstage and not a wintry exterior location shot. But such artifice is to be expected, and this is overall an excellent looking film. La Bohème Blu-ray, Audio Quality  Unfortunately the same can't be said for the BD's audio options. I completely understand some niche labels releasing Blu's without lossless audio, but it kind of boggles the mind when the release is music-centric. But put aside that audiophile bugaboo for a moment and there's a more immediate problem with the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix (also apparent, but less so, on its 2.0 sibling, due to the narrower soundfield). The mix here is really awful at times. The orchestra, while brilliant and flawlessly reproduced, albeit in a lossy environment, completely overpowers the singers often enough that I actually thought it might be the fault of the settings on my surround system. Repeated tweaking didn't help much, and I finally opted for the 2.0 choice, where the lack of surround channels actually helped narrow the sonic focus and restored at least a little balance between the singers and the orchestra. All of this said, this is obviously glorious music, and even the lossy DD 5.1 and/or 2.0 mixes provide sterling fidelity, with the stratospheric highs of the sopranos matched equally by both the bluster of the low end orchestral instruments and the singing basses. Puccini of course delighted in pushing the vocal envellope, one of the reasons his operas are still such a challenge for even the best singers. This is certainly an OK soundtrack. But OK doesn't cut it in the new high-definition world of Blu-ray and I fear that most potential customers for this title are going to be turned off first by no lossless tracks, and then even more by the slipshod lossy mixes included here. La Bohème Blu-ray, News and Updates• La Boheme Blu-ray Coming December 15th - November 16, 2009 Kultur has announced that they will bring Giacomo Puccini's 'La Boheme' to Blu-ray on December 15th. This big budget motion picture based on the immortal opera was directed by Academy-award nominee Robert Dornhelm and stars opera's 'Golden Couple', soprano Anna ... La Bohème Blu-ray, Forum Discussions
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