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Monday, June 27, 2016

VICTORIA

Directed by Sebastian Schipper
Cinematography Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Performances by Laia Costa, Frederick Lau,
Music composed by Nils Frahm



"The script was without dialogue, like a 20-page treatment. We knew the action but didn't necessarily know how the dialogue was going to develop. We split the film into ten parts, and rehearsed each part separately. This was in some ways script and character development. It was a great possibility for me to see what works and what doesn't. The actors were more or less free to do as they pleased. I didn't plan any specific camera moves, although I had ideas about how to get in and out of the car for the driving scene, and because I had rehearsed it my body kind of knew what to do. [...]

The camera is a fly on a wall, and an extra character. [...] The real-time aspect of it does something to the perception of the movie. You don't feel manipulated. It was important to me that it had poetry, and had a style. It wasn't just trying to catch the dialogue, but also trying to catch poetic moments. We did light the film and try to work with colours. But it doesn't feel like something that is put on top of it, it's something integrated."

- Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, Cinematographer
(source: Canon 2015, interviewed by CPN writer James Morris)



TRUE DETECTIVE - Season 1

Written by Nic Pizolatto / Directed by Cary Fukunaga
Performances by Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle, Woody Harrelson as Martin Hart, Michelle Monaghan as Maggie Hart
Cinematography by Adam Arkapaw





"Just gotta look a man in his eyes. It's all there. Everybody wears their hunger and their haunt... Just gotta be honest about what can go on up here. The locked room." - Rust Cohle