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Title: Great movie. Utterly abysmal transfer.
Review: Don't get me wrong - the film itself is a gem.This transcription, however, is really bad. The original is 16:9, and the transcription is 4:3. There's none of that pan/scan stuff, which would be bad enough in itself - they just cropped the edge of the screen. To call it 'amateur' would be an insult to amateurs. Think 'bootleg copy'.This is the second example of crappy transfers from European productions that I've come across in the last couple of weeks. Both involved British productions currently unavailable in the US. I assume the business model is to provide USA-compatible copies of difficult to obtain European productions (c/f A Month in the Country), hoping that the target audience will accept anything.We don't. Anyone feel like producing something worth buying?And just to repeat - the rating is for the transfer: the film is at the very least ten stars.
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