Friday 17 July 2015

To The Wonder (2012 Terrence Malick)

After 15 minutes I did laugh and say 'this is the longest perfume ad I've ever seen'.

Extraordinary stuff - Malick is a poet. His films don't behave like other people's. Emmanuel Lubezki's camera is constantly moving, observing nature as much as people, the film is always cutting, the 'story' emerges gracefully.

,,,when we talk about using natural light, it’s not because we don’t want to have a truck with lights, but because what we want to capture can only be captured accidentally as it happens in front of us.[...] we’re always looking for the moments that editors normally throw out...
Interview with Chivo in ASC magazine. You have to rave Steadicam operator Joerg Widmer also, who also shot Paris scenes. The film had five editors.

Shot in Panavision 'spherical' - not the squeezed anamorphic way.

Incredible moments - love the way they keep popping in and out of view in the house. Pools of light, reflections. If any evidence was needed that Chivo is the Master of Light, this is it. Incredibly, he received neither Oscar nor BAFTA nomination.

By the way, there are some people in it: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem and Rachel McAdams.

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