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Yimou Zhang’s 2006 spectacular epic Curse of the Golden Flower set in the 10th century was given its European Blu-ray release on August 2011, that’s four years after the DVD release; I’m glad to report the wait was worth it, this region free disc is encoded using MPEG4 in full 1080p resolution which shows up the colourful sets and the golden costumes and jewellery in all their glory, details such as the beads of sweat on foreheads now show up, the up-grade to Blu-ray also shows the emotions of the characters better and during the combat scenes involving bladed weapons spark fly as they clang and scrape against each other this was not so obvious to me watching this production on DVD The disc has a Mandarin DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack which picks up all the delicate ambient sounds such as the rustle of the silk clothes as the characters walk around, the music has a lot more detail and the menacing sounding choir dominates and adds texture and atmosphere, there are two sets of English subtitles one normal and the other for the hard of hearing. This has become part of my test disc library with use of deep rich colours and the blackest of blacks. There are very few special features compared to its DVD counterpart it has the featurettes called “Secrets Within” and two others called “The Empress” and “The Emperor” respectively and that’s it, the DVD had the teaser trailer and the trailer and a Photo gallery.Read full review
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