The film itself contains some minor speckles and also exhibits some noise in a handful selected scenes but other than that makes for a beautiful presentation of the movie. The transfer has great color delineation, bringing out even the subtlest hues and shades in the lush images the movie conjures up. Most of the film is held in warm colors with many earth tones and an array of strong greens, all of which are nicely saturated without over-emphasis. The transfer also has a lot of visual depth, due to the good black level of the DVD, which creates deep solid blacks and shadows, without losing definition and detail. This is especially noticeable in some of the nighttime scenes were we are allowed to slightly penetrate the darkness to make out shadows in the distance still, and to clearly distinguish characters and shapes in those scenes.
Highlights are also well restored, giving the film a warm and idyllic look throughout.
The DVD contains a 4.1 channel Dolby Digital surround audio track. It is a rather unconventional format that uses monophonic surrounds like the Dolby Surround encoding does, but adds a low frequency channel to the mix. The surround mix is rather restrained for the most part of the movie however, mostly using ambience to expand the sound field and to enhance the spacious images on the screen. Especially in the outdoor scenes this effect is realized very carefully, fully immersing the viewer subtly, without ever having on obvious surround mix. However, the dialogue in the film sounds very harsh for the most time, which seems to be a result of the film s original dialogue mix.