Dialogue is generally clear, but occasionally actors wander a bit out of range, making some conversations uneven. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 76 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Kat, who is illiterate, gets Paul to read him a letter from his wife and worries that he will be unable to reintegrate into peacetime society. Clarity is more refined, the image more textured, artefacts absolutely non-existent, with the higher bitrate leaving you with a visibly more impressive image, that still revels in the bloody, muddy horrors of war, but does so with demo precision. As a result, the story tracks very closely with that theme, which reinforces Berger’s message that “war is futility,” but it also loses opportunities for Paul to have some character development.

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As for Berger’s commentary, he leads off by saying that this is his first such discussion over a movie. We had to essentially put a pregnant fox in a purpose-built den that was designed for shooting with camera traps. The Dolby Vision adds those more nuanced colors in the icy cool shades during the fog-ridden and stormy weather that looks amazing.

Library of Congress, and while it's in acceptable shape, it's nowhere near the quality of the main feature here. After enlisting in the German Army with his friends, Bäumer finds himself exposed to the realities of war, shattering his early hopes of becoming a hero as he does his best to survive. In 1917, three years into World War I, 17-year-old Paul Bäumer enlists in the Imperial German Army alongside friends Albert Kropp, Franz Müller, and Ludwig Behm. The story also cuts away at times to the German leadership, both those at the top of the chain who ultimately negotiate an armistice with the Allies and the local German general who demands that the men under his command launch a final offensives, mere minutes before the cease-fire is to take effect, to take back territory they had previously lost. The former provides utter immersion on the expansive yet equally, somehow, claustrophobic battlefront, from artillery booms to thunderous gunshot, and savage close-quarters penetrations.

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Paul Baumer is a sensitive youth, but is persuaded to join up by a war-mongering professor advocating glory for the Fatherland. Remarque is not as interested in the war and geopolitics as he is in the war as human absurdity made manifest. com members the opportunity to win a copy of director Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front, starring John Wray, Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim. And by focusing on German soldiers, who largely comprised the American enemy in World War I, the film adopts a compelling humanistic slant, proving the horrors of war are the same on both sides of the battle lines. Location Managers Guild International Awards Winners: 'John Wick 4,' 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' '1923,' 'The Last of Us,' 'The White Lotus' ".In fact, the one character who gets the most well-rounded approach is a nameless French soldier killed by Paul. The four wins tied All Quiet on the Western Front with Fanny and Alexander (1982), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and Parasite (2019) as the most-awarded foreign language film in the Oscars' history. With the 1930 film winning multiple awards and the 1979 TV version already seared in people's minds, it was about time someone gave the material a new look and even created a parallel story that not only followed its main character but also navigated the peace talks in WWI. The featurette is a bit hard to follow given its multi-language approach (some in Deutch and some English). He sobs and apologizes to the man as he rifles through the dead soldier’s belongings, including a photo of his wife and child and what is presumably a letter from home.