Rapito (2023) 4K UHD

[McCrutchy]

Eagle Pictures will release Marco Bellocchio's Rapito (Kidnapped) (2023) on 20 September 2023.

[McCrutchy]

Information for this release was just loaded onto Amazon.it, and apparently the 4K UHD will have Italian SDH, English and French subtitles, while the Blu-ray will have Italian SDH and English subtitles. The 4K UHD edition also includes a Blu-ray copy.

The listing says the 4K UHD and Blu-ray are 24 fps and 134 minutes (the PAL DVD is listed as 128 minutes) with Italian: DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc.

[nicwood]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Eagle Pictures will release Marco Bellocchio's Rapito (Kidnapped) (2023) on 20 September 2023.

Wow, this is unexpected in the best way. For me, the best physical media news of the day hands down.

Marco Bellocchio’s apparently final film in an English friendly UHD from Eagle and with Dolby Vision.

Bellocchio is a living legend of (European) cinema, soon celebrating 60 years in the business yet he’s still incredibly underrated and his works underrepresented in all mediums anywhere in the world. Fists in the Pocket took until 2019 for Criterion’s release - and it’s still the only film of his in the collection.

During Covid, he directed a six-part miniseries (Exterior Night) starring Toni Servillo and no one’s heard of it outside Italy.

So, I’m taking the UHD totally happy and excited but I wonder what prevents studios / distributors from making his work available for audiences.

[McCrutchy]

Back cover:



Blu-ray:

[Show spoiler]

[nicwood]

Got my copy today. This release may be a little problematic for some as the included BD did not play on my Panasonic player at all. I have a PlayStation but never use it to play back discs and it worked there strangely. Just keep that in mind if you need the BD. The extra feature, BTS and interviews with Marco Bellocchio, non-subtitled, is just on the BD.

The UHD itself works perfectly but does not have the advertised Dolby Vision, just HDR10.
It’s no big deal to me but having it advertised so much on the cover and on Amazon etc. makes the omission disappointing.

The master itself looks really good and no issues from what I saw. Sharp, precise, solid colors etc. (I’m not yet sure how much the digital look will distract me when seeing this period piece but that’s another story).
Audio has a high bitrate and sounds very dynamic, again based on my brief check.

I’ll try and see the film as soon as possible, likely early next week. In case I spot more issues, I’ll report back. Otherwise, I hope as many Bellocchio fans as possible will support this UHD.

[Ikari]

Ordered this along with The Conformist where I got the v1 pressing, I guess I'm getting two iffy Eagle releases

[minister_x]

Got my copy through today. As nicwood said, no DV, but the disc is about 83GB, so nice they didn't cram it onto a BD-66 (I get the impression the film is quite visually dark) - hopefully a good encoding as well as one with a high bitrate! Doing a BDInfo run on it now.

[minister_x]

Eh, must be a bug in my copy of BDInfo - will investigate another time. Partial output, which I appreciate is not that useful, but does confirm the very basics...

EDIT: The film video stream is 83,219,564,544 bytes, so most of the disc.

DISC INFO:

Disc Label:     RAPITO_uhd
Disc Size:      83,396,140,357 bytes
Protection:     AACS2
Extras:         Ultra HD, BD-Java
BDInfo:         0.7.5.8-X

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name:                   00004.MPLS
Length:                 2:14:00.042 (h:m:s.ms)
Size:                   0 bytes
Total Bitrate:          0.00 Mbps

VIDEO:

Codec                   Bitrate             Description     
-----                   -------             -----------     
MPEG-H HEVC Video       0 kbps              2160p / 24 fps / 16:9 / Main 10 @ Level 5.1 @ High / 4:2:0 / 10 bits / HDR10 / 744nits / BT.2020

AUDIO:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
DTS-HD Master Audio             Italian         0 kbps          5.1 / 48 kHz / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Dolby Digital Audio             Italian         192 kbps        2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -31dB

SUBTITLES:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
Presentation Graphics           Italian         0.000 kbps                      
Presentation Graphics           English         0.000 kbps                      
Presentation Graphics           French          0.000 kbps

[French Manu]

Originally Posted by minister_x

Got my copy through today. As nicwood said, no DV, but the disc is about 83GB, so nice they didn't cram it onto a BD-66 (I get the impression the film is quite visually dark) - hopefully a good encoding as well as one with a high bitrate! Doing a BDInfo run on it now.

The bonus feature is also subtitled in french? Thanks

[minister_x]

Originally Posted by French Manu

The bonus feature is also subtitled in french? Thanks

The bonus feature is not subtitled in any language, unfortunately. Only the film is subtitled in English and French (and Italian SDH) - on both UHD and BD.

[French Manu]

Originally Posted by minister_x

The bonus feature is not subtitled in any language, unfortunately. Only the film is subtitled in English and French (and Italian SDH) - on both UHD and BD.

Thanks, the film issues in french cinema November the first, it is long to wait.

It will not issue on UHD in France for sure, french subtitles for movie it's already good.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by French Manu

Thanks, the film issues in french cinema November the first, it is long to wait.

It will not issue on UHD in France for sure, french subtitles for movie it's already good.

I talked about this in the Curzon thread, but I definitely appreciate when a film comes out on disc months before the UK release (January 2024!), especially when it likely won’t come out on disc or play in any cinemas near me. So though €28 is more than some would spend on one film, it would basically cover the travel costs and cinema ticket if I decided to wait until January.

With France it works both ways. Plenty of films get French discs that don’t get UK ones (After Yang, Showing Up) or months or at least half a year before the UK (Benedetta, Fumer fait tousser, Revoir Paris, R.M.N.), but then Saint Omer ends up DVD only in France with a UK Blu-ray.