The grubby cream suit serves as his protective armor which he uses to defend himself against everything outside. Or maybe more like a shroud. Who can tell. The color scheme in La Chimera creates an uncomfortable effect because it alternates between the bright Tuscan sunlight and the hidden underground areas where things build value through […]
Poor Things presents itself as a straightforward work. The term "radical" has become the common description that people use to describe this concept. Liberating. Feminist Frankenstein reimagining, whatever. But the color story here tells you everything, actually betrays the whole conceit before you even realize what's happening. Black and white London. Obvious enough. The city
Look, everyone wants to talk about how this film mourns the Osage, but can we discuss how beige everything gets when Ernest arrives? The palette shifts from those gorgeous oil-soaked blues and blacks to this oppressive dusty nothing, and it stays there for three and a half hours. Actually, that's unfair. The oil fountain sequence
That hat. I need to talk about the hat for a short period of time. The porkpie hat which Cillian Murphy wears throughout Oppenheimer appears grayish-taupe under different lighting conditions. The camera work by Hoyte van Hoytema appears deliberate in his depiction of the hat. Too intentional. The brim never moves. Never. Even when the
Aftersun reaches its peak when Sophie points a camcorder at her motionless father who sits in the Turkish hotel lighting. Calum doesn't want to be filmed. Keeps turning away. The camera insists. Actually, that's the whole film. Charlotte Wells handles memory as if it were shattered glass which reveals its jagged parts while showing light
The following is a statement about gray. Field shoots Berlin like it's made entirely of concrete and rain, which somehow works perfectly for what's happening to Lydia Tár. The opening scene of the film shows her teaching Gopnik about time. "Time is the thing," she says, and you get this moment where Blanchett's face does
