How high can you fly?
What is true love? What would we do to keep it, once we find it? Is this what it is like to find a true soulmate? What is wrong and right if we seek redemption, but are dragged down by a lust for justice?
Few filmmakers could address such questions with any kind of depth without relying on schmaltz, but one such was the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, who brought us such beautiful films as the Trois Couleurs Trilogy. But when he died after beginning a new cycle of films, Tom Tykwer stepped in to finish Kieslowski's final work -- and the exquisite result is a light-filled hybrid of both their styles.
In Italy, young schoolteacher Phillipa Paccard (Cate Blanchett) sneaks into drug kingpin Vendice's office and plants a bomb in his trash, not knowing that the trash is about to be collected. The resulting explosion kills the cleaning lady, a man and his two children. When Phillipa is arrested and told this, she is aghast. She only intended to kill the kingpin, because his...
Mono? Are you kidding me? MONO?
This review is for the Blu-Ray of "Heaven", not the movie itself, which is a personal favorite. The picture is crisp, but washed out. OK, this is a cheap disc. I get that, but such a visual movie should receive better treatment. The really insulting fact is that the soundtrack is NOT stereo as indicated in the description and on the case. It is Mono. I know this is not an action movie, but it has some directional sounds and, more importantly, a wonderful soundtrack, which is reproduced in remarkably flat (and I mean DRAB, FLAT), lifeless mono. The streaming version available from you-know-who has a better image and surround sound.
A major REJECT from this fan.
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