L'ASSASSINO - ( The Assassin ) - Elio Petri - 1961 - Carlotta French Label

[Jesse_James]

....This is my review, I wrote and published previously in other Forums this year, in the month of February .


...The Movie...:

...First and already biting Feature (Censored obviously with no reason at the time) of Master's Petri, with interesting insights Psychological Kafkaesque Bergman style , that "masked" from Noir (and we can damn well) shows the relationship between man "Common" and authority , with its blatant "errors" of (pre)judgment and red tape, very dear to the petri dish, which we'll face the best example in the masterpiece "Investigation of a citizen Above suspicion" .

...Mastroianni and Randone EXCEL ! .


...The BD Disc...:


...The BD of the French Label Carlotta, needless to say is G O R G E O U S !

...Here below, details of the New 2K Scan Restoration...:

"The Digital Restoration of L'ASSASSINO, was produced from the Original OCN , lacking the first and last reel, as well as a interpositive Era .

The two elements were Scanned in 2K resolution and Digitally Restored .

The Color grading was performed using as reference a copy of the Age Positive, preserved by the production company Titanus in the Archives of the Cinematheque of Bologna .

The original soundtrack has been restored from 35mm Negative optical, which in turn was printed a Positive Column of conservation, which later was acquired and digitally Restored .

All operations and the steps of processing were performed at the Laboratory of Bologna "L'Immagine Ritrovata" in the 2011 . "


...The detail is extraordinary ( close-ups of Mastroianni and Beautiful Cristina Gaioni, the walls of the cell, etc.... are fantastic detailed ) medium-fine grain barely noticeable and perfectly managed, sublime gray scale, contrast and black level really excellent !

...Bitrate always very high (I've seen peaks of 34-35 Mbps, maybe even more) average of 23-26 Mbps, AVC encoding, zero filters, Italian audio track in DTS-HD-MA 1.0 Mono (with French sub-OPTIONAL REMOVABLE), really great, that beautifully reproduces the wonderful soundtrack by Piero Piccioni .

...About the Extra, we have two interviews (16 and 17 minutes, approximately) to the wife of Petri, Paola Pegoraro Petri, in HD but unfortunately in French, in any case I've seen anyway, because its easy to follow .

...Really a GEM !!!

...This is the History of Our (Italian) Cinematography, the TRUE that once...

...I really think that the new BD release for the UK market , from ARROW Label, will use this new and STUNNING Restoration from 2K Scan , and obviously will have English subtitles !