Three Monkeys (Turkey - Imaj)

[kannisto]

I got this excellent Turkish movie Three Monkeys on Blu-ray a couple of days ago with the help from a Turkish forum friend.

The director Nuri Bilge Ceylan won Best Director award in 2008 Cannes Film Festival and also in 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards for this movie.

Case pics:


Basic specs:
- BD25
- Region free (and no 50hz / 25 fps material on the main feature disc)
- Video: 2.35:1 (OAR) VC-1 1080p/24 fps
- Audio: Turkish DTS-HD MA 5.1 (16-bit) and DTS-HD MA 2.0
- Optional English, French and Turkish subtitles
- Menu is bilingual Turkish and English

- 2nd disc (SD PAL (576i) DVD, regions 1-8) with these extras (218 minutes):
- Behind the Scenes Documentary
- Three Monkeys at Cannes
- Interview with N.B. Ceylan (TV Show from Türkmax channel)
- TV Show about N.B. Ceylan (Kanaltürk)
- About Cannes with Ünsal Oskay (TV Show, Skytürk)
- Trailer

- Moview review in Washington Post
- Movies promotional homepage
- Imaj production homepage

Extras disc has also a bilingual Turkish and English menu and selection menu for optional English and Turkish subtitles for all the extras.


BD Info scan:

                                                                                                                Total   Video                                             
Title                                                           Codec   Length  Movie Size      Disc Size       Bitrate Bitrate Main Audio Track                          Secondary Audio Track
-----                                                           ------  ------- --------------  --------------  ------- ------- ------------------                        ---------------------
(TR) Three Monkeys                                              VC-1    1:48:51 21,317,351,424  21,858,097,804  26.11   21.98   DTS-HD Master 5.1 1670Kbps (48kHz/16-bit) DTS-HD Master 2.0 897Kbps (48kHz/16-bit)

DISC INFO:

Disc Title:     UC MAYMUN
Disc Size:      21,858,097,804 bytes
Protection:     AACS
BD-Java:        No
BDInfo:         0.5.2

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name:                   00002.MPLS
Size:                   21,317,351,424 bytes
Length:                 1:48:51 (h:m:s)
Total Bitrate:          26.11 Mbps
Description:            

VIDEO:

Codec                   Bitrate             Description     
-----                   -------             -----------     
VC-1 Video              21982 kbps          1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / Advanced Profile 3

AUDIO:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
DTS-HD Master Audio             Turkish         1670 kbps       5.1 / 48 kHz / 1670 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
DTS-HD Master Audio             Turkish         897 kbps        2.0 / 48 kHz / 897 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 16-bit)

SUBTITLES:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
Presentation Graphics           English         8.785 kbps                      
Presentation Graphics           French          7.976 kbps                      
Presentation Graphics           Turkish         12.228 kbps                     

FILES:

Name            Time In         Length          Size            Total Bitrate   
----            -------         ------          ----            -------------   
00005.M2TS      0:00:00.000     1:48:51.000     21,317,351,424  26,112          

CHAPTERS:

Number          Time In         Length          Avg Video Rate  Max 1-Sec Rate  Max 1-Sec Time  Max 5-Sec Rate  Max 5-Sec Time  Max 10Sec Rate  Max 10Sec Time  Avg Frame Size  Max Frame Size  Max Frame Time  
------          -------         ------          --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  
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6               0:58:17.916     0:01:24.750     23,589 kbps     36,299 kbps     00:59:31.208    30,903 kbps     00:59:29.208    30,125 kbps     00:59:29.208    122,860 bytes   360,134 bytes   00:59:41.250    
7               0:59:42.666     0:28:47.041     23,183 kbps     42,231 kbps     01:11:54.583    34,811 kbps     01:11:32.708    33,463 kbps     01:11:32.833    120,746 bytes   427,990 bytes   01:24:40.041    
8               1:28:29.708     0:15:27.333     22,445 kbps     36,362 kbps     01:38:35.708    33,538 kbps     01:38:16.541    33,155 kbps     01:38:17.208    116,900 bytes   375,209 bytes   01:34:30.958    
9               1:43:57.041     0:04:53.958     9,671 kbps      41,814 kbps     01:44:15.166    38,421 kbps     01:44:11.583    35,913 kbps     01:44:06.166    51,343 bytes    414,307 bytes   01:44:06.208    

STREAM DIAGNOSTICS:

File            PID             Type            Codec           Language                Seconds                 Bitrate                 Bytes           Packets         
----            ---             ----            -----           --------                --------------          --------------          -------------   -----           
00005.M2TS      4113 (0x1011)   0xEA            VC-1                                    6530.875                21,982                  17,945,155,664  97,622,458      
00005.M2TS      4352 (0x1100)   0x86            DTS-HD MA       tur (Turkish)           6530.875                1,670                   1,363,494,288   8,414,006       
00005.M2TS      4353 (0x1101)   0x86            DTS-HD MA       tur (Turkish)           6530.875                897                     732,630,940     4,632,126       
00005.M2TS      4608 (0x1200)   0x90            PGS             eng (English)           6530.875                9                       7,171,842       42,492          
00005.M2TS      4609 (0x1201)   0x90            PGS             fra (French)            6530.875                8                       6,511,091       38,894          
00005.M2TS      4610 (0x1202)   0x90            PGS             tur (Turkish)           6530.875                12                      9,982,845       59,081

[kannisto]

[kannisto]

[kannisto]

I watched the movie last night and really liked it a lot. It's done in rather minimalistic art-house style with 4 main characters giving excellent performances. The cinematography / camera work is great with a lot of emphasis on camera angles etc. Many of the key events in the movie happen off-camera and the main focus is on the human relationships and psychological effects of the events on the main characters. There's practically no music or artificial sound effects, all the sounds seem to consist of natural sounds of the various environments the movie takes place in. A lot of the movie seems to have been shot with natural light as well.

The movie managed to pull me in and keep my interest very high through the whole duration, and it stays in the mind afterwards. It would be nice to see more work from the same director.

The extras are also quite extensive and interesting and they reveal a lot of information about the director and also about his earlier films. I didn't have time to watch all of the extras yet (there are more than 3 hours of them), but I intend to watch them all afterwards. From the extras I did watch already, it seems that the director is a perfectionist who spends a lot of time on each scene, doing a lot of takes and honing the camera angles until he is completely satisfied with the visuals and the performances.

This can be highly recommended for people who like films of e.g. Terence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Kim Ki-Duk.

PQ was rather gritty, but there's a lot of detail in most of the shots and some natural looking grain. Colors are quite muted, and somewhat dark, brownish / greenish. This is likely attributable to the director's intentional color filtering. I didn't notice any artifacts like DNR or EE, but in some scenes some of the image details may be lost due to the strong color filtering, but that can be attributable to the intentional look. Overall the images looked very photographic and nice.

AQ wise the movie didn't give any special workout to the surrounds etc. but the natural sounds were convincing and effective and the dialogue seemed pretty clear though I don't know Turkish language. English subtitles were partly over the video image and partly below it, and they were good. It was easy to follow the movie with the subs.

So overall I think this is a very good movie and a very solid release, and it's nice to have a BD from Turkey in my collection as well as I'm always interested in releases from other countries, especially local movies from those countries.

[Tsargrad]

Hey mate, do you have any links we can use to order this title?

[kannisto]

I don't know much about Turkish online stores, I got mine with the help from a friend. But with a quick look at Ebay, I could find a Turkish seller who ships worldwide and has 4 of them available, format is stated to be Blu-ray and the pic is for the BD version:

http://cgi.ebay.com/UC-MAYMUN-THREE-...item518d9ff14d

[Tsargrad]

Cheers kannisto... I couldn't find on ebay before.. Probably had the settings looking locally only...

His feedback looks good too.

[fhivlkllsil]

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[fhivlkllsil]

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