City of God (Cidade de Deus) (La Cité de Dieu) (Blu-ray Review)

July 29th, 2010 admin

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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