City of God (Cidade de Deus) (La Cité de Dieu) (Blu-ray Review)
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Winner of the Visions Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles’ “Cidade de Deus” a.k.a “City of God” (2002) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Canadian distributors Alliance. The only supplemental feature on the disc is the documentary film “News From a Personal War”. In Portuguese, with imposed English or French subtitles for the main feature. Region-A “locked”. … Video Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Fernando Meirelles’ City of God arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Canadian distributors Alliance. This is a pleasing but somewhat inconsistent high-definition transfer. Generally speaking, fine object detail is …
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