Z (1969) Blu Ray English Subtitles

ONE OF THE VERY GREATEST FILMS EVER MADEHARD TO GET COPIESGO FOR IT!

First of all: the dvd quality is stunning. playing it through a BD player on a 42" tv, it almost looks like a Blu Ray.Definitely worth the excellent cinematography, visual style and athmosphere of the film. A film that's political, nervous, fragmented in its narrative style yet so good to look at, like many italian films from 1960/70 which Z was largely influenced by. Films like those directed by Francesco Rosi and Elio Petri, inspired by a deep, provocative and angry political view yet so brilliant in their storytelling and capable to catch an average audience attention. Z is like that, brilliant and cruel at the same time, oassionate and cold in its depiction and analysys of political dynamics and human ones, showing the ideology behind a coup d'etat and also observing how people involved act like animals, not in a judjemental way, but like we're watching beasts in a cage. See, for example, the fighting scenes or the attacks: people act unnaturally if you look at them like normal people, to the point that some scene are almost surreal. .All the cast does its best, but Trintignant, as usual, sticks out with a great performance of underacting and understatement, this time in an unusual role: not one of his bad and mediocre guys roles, but a quiet and firm state officer.

This looks like it has been recorded off an old VHS. You can see the lines across the screen like you do on video quality broadcast.

I purchased the film for viewing - if cxxourse - but cannot as there is no English whatsoever.Your advice pleaseNevile Robinson

To begin with let me set the record straight. The "product description" from Amazon mentions a right-wing military dictatorship in Greece in 1963. This is totally untrue and slanderous for the country as at the time the elected Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis was in power. There were extreme right wing elements both in the Army and in the Police, that tried to cover up the assassination of the deputy Grigoris Lambrakis but they certainly did not organise the killing. As for the prosecutor, Christos Sartzetakis, he ended up becoming President of the Republic some years later, something again not mentioned anywhere in the film.The film itself, in the French language, is well made and it keeps the narrative and the interest of the viewer active throughout. Worth watching, bearing in mind the points I have made in the previous paragraph and the fact that politically this film tends to present the events that took place in Thessaloniki in 1963 in a rather one sided way.

This DVD does not have English subtitles! Not mentioned in the product description.

It would have been good to know that the version of this French film had only Spanish subtitles, not English, and therefore was entirely useless to me. I do not remember seeing anything indicating this in the description of the product.

French audio with English subtitles, still keeps you hooked until we know the main character, played by Yves Montand, has actually died but you want him to survive. After this it changes mood, maybe it's a French thing!