Painted Bird, The [Nabarvené ptáče] ◾︎ Václav Marhoul ◾︎ 2019

Magic Box / Blu-ray

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Last modified on Monday 11th May 2020, 10:15:57 PM

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Label: Magic Box (Czech Republic)

Region: A, B & C (?)

RCE protection: n/a

Copyright protection system: AACS

Disc type: 2 x BD50 (the data occupy 43.50 & 32.59 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 2:49:12.16

Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001

Aspect ratio: 2.38:1

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.00 / 27.77 / 40.35 Mbps

Audio:

Multiple languages, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 / 4,104 kbps
Multiple languages, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 / 2,119 kbps
Slovak audio descriptive in Dolby Digital 2.0 / 224 kbps

Subtitles:

English, Czech (for the non-Czech parts)*, Czech for the hearing impaired, French,
German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Slovak for the hearing impaired, Ukrainian,
Interslavic (Latin script) & Interslavic (Cyrillic script)

Menus available in:

Czech

Special features:

Disc 1

None

Disc 2

"11 barev ptáčete," the making of "The Painted Bird"
("11 Colors of the Bird," 2:05:40, in Czech**)
Teaser (1:00, no dialogue)
Trailer (2:35, multiple languages)
Photogallery (19:51, 297 film stills, silent)

(Unless noted otherwise, all extras are MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001, DTS-HD MA 2.0.)

Notes:

A stellar-looking Blu-ray, this! I did notice a couple of weird compression / DVNR (?) artefacts, but one would be really hard pressed to spot these in motion:

6720 / 6721 … 6726 … 6747 … 6753 … 6760 … 6766 / 6767 | 157736 / 157737 … 157740 / 157741

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What shouldn't be *too* difficult to spot are the striking similarities to other Czech films of note, like "Diamonds of the Night" (the opening chase bit) or "Marketa Lazarová" (below). Just sayin'... (c:

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*the subtitles are enabled by default, but it's possible to turn them off using the RC
**with optional Czech for the hearing impaired & English subtitles

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