Title: Great film, terrible DVD
Review: Like most Pasolini films, this is a beautiful film.Unfortunately, like most of Water Bearer's Pasolini releases, this is by far one of the worst looking and sounding DVDs I have ever seen.The sound is hissy and scratchy, like a destroyed vinyl record.The color is weak and pale.The picture itself is scratchy, dirty and shaky: a thick, distracting layer of crud over the picture surface.Worst of all, the subtitles are terrible: hard to read, and irremovable from the screen.There are also no chapters on this disc: the whole film is one long chapter.I honestly don't know why Water Bearer even bothered to license the Pasolini films because it seems they did absolutely NOTHING to prepare them for proper release. It's sad and completely disrespectful to the work. Hopefully, sometime in the future Criterion or a similar company will acquire these films and do a nice job presenting them. The 2004 Criterion version of Momma Roma is absolutely wonderful.
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