Firth is great - won the BAFTA, was Oscar nominated. It's a beautiful film, in spirit and appearance. Eduard Grau shot it. David Scearce co-wrote, from Christopher Isherwood novel. Ginnifer Goodwin is the neighbour. Abel Korzeniowski wrote the music.
Info from Variety.com: Colin Firth plays the professor, and as his feelings switch from depression to elation the colors turn from cold blues and grays to warm reds and oranges – and vice versa.
“Tom wanted the color to go according to the characters’ feelings and emotions at each point of the movie,” said Grau, “and we followed that all the way.”
To maximize this effect, Grau suggested using an older Kodak film stock, 5279, which is no longer generally available. “It has very beautiful grain, and in a way, is timeless,” Grau said. “It’s very saturated, beautiful and rich, especially the reds. We tested it along with other stocks, and Tom and I both decided this would be the one.”
The entire film was shot on 5279 35mm, including a black-and-white flashback scene in which Firth and his companion, played by Matthew Goode, sit on a dramatic rock formation. Like much of the movie, its color was altered — in this case removed — during the digital intermediate stage, when the film’s look was manipulated to Ford’s satisfaction.
“The color was taken out of the scene in DI because the image is more striking in black and white,” said Grau. “It’s an image of a memory, and there’s a black-and-white photo in the film that relates to the same memory.
“We shot various moments differently, and lit them differently as well, but then Tom changed color saturation,” said Grau, adding that Ford was a constant presence in the DI sessions. “The movie is very personal to Tom. The way it looks is the way he saw it from the beginning.”
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