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I got the French Blu today: the transfer is absolutely marvellous. Sony's DVD looked wonderful for standard definition but this Blu-Ray eclipses it in all the usual areas with greater detail and smoothness, purer blacks, finer grain and popping colours. Anyone who has seen this theatrically is going to be delighted with this high def presentation. The DTS HD track is very solid when called upon. Packaging and menus are all in French but the film AND the extras (mirroring the DVDs) all have optional subtitles. However, the disc is NOT region-free. It will not load at all unless set to Region B (I've tried out the Region A setting and had no luck).

King Prendergast wrote:With BRIGHT STAR, Campion, almost as if in direct response to Sobchack's remarks on THE PIANO in CARNAL THOUGHTS, creates one of the most phenomenologically affecting narrative films in some time; Keats' disquisition on "luxuriating in the lake" of poetry synecdochically allegorizes the experience of the film itself.Cornish's resplendent performance--like no other since that of Faye Wong in CHUNGKING EXPRESS--produces immediate infatuation; indeed, no current actress so thoroughly dominates the sensory-motor-schema save perhaps Argento--the dark, seductive moon to Cornish's demure star.

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HistoryProf wrote:

King Prendergast wrote:With BRIGHT STAR, Campion, almost as if in direct response to Sobchack's remarks on THE PIANO in CARNAL THOUGHTS, creates one of the most phenomenologically affecting narrative films in some time; Keats' disquisition on "luxuriating in the lake" of poetry synecdochically allegorizes the experience of the film itself.Cornish's resplendent performance--like no other since that of Faye Wong in CHUNGKING EXPRESS--produces immediate infatuation; indeed, no current actress so thoroughly dominates the sensory-motor-schema save perhaps Argento--the dark, seductive moon to Cornish's demure star.

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If you really are a professor you should be used to this kind of stuff. :-s

Does the Aussie blu-ray have english subs?

Yes. English for hearing-impaired.

I may be wrong but I believe this upcoming HK disc is the first Region A coded Blu-Ray of Bright Star, preorder here.

Finch wrote:I may be wrong but I believe this upcoming HK disc is the first Region A coded Blu-Ray of Bright Star, preorder here.

Australian release is region free as far as I know.