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PRODUCTIONS 10/ DIGGER Emmanuel Lubezki tells us about creating Digger ’s singular aesthetic 20/ THE SOCIAL RECKONING Jeff Cronenweth gets into the look of the second instalment of the Facebook saga 34/ THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK DOP Sam Levy leans into neo-noir in this stylishly shot Big Apple crime thriller 40/ POSSIBLE LOVE DOP Kim Ji-yong on the ‘quiet visuals’ of Lee Chang-dong’s latest feature REGULARS 6/ BEHIND THE SHOT We dive into a rain-drenched sequence in Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude 24/ DYNAMIC DUOS DOP Christine Ng and director Jonathan Krisel reveal how they collaborate 48/ VFX BREAKDOWN How Zoic Studios shaped the creatures and visual effects of Alien: Earth INDUSTRY 62/ THE COPRODUCTIONS PLAYBOOK International coproductions are on the rise: here’s how to make them work
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DEF RECOMMENDS: MARIE ANTOINETTE
A s Marie Antoinette celebrates its 20th anniversary with an exhibition and a new documentary about its production arriving in November, now is the perfect time to revisit this riotous slice of pastel-hued French history. Released to a mixed reception in 2006 (famously, it was booed at Cannes), the film has acquired cult status in the two decades
since. It sees Sofia Coppola in familiar territory, exploring the wants, whims and boredom of a young woman, this time amidst the pomp and grandeur of Versailles. The production was granted rare access to the actual Palace, including the Hall of Mirrors and the Petit Trianon, and every inch of the film is beautiful in its detail, from the extraordinary costumes
to the sumptuous production design. Shot on 35mm, the film exists in a dreamy haze; watching it now, you can see Coppola’s influence on today’s auteurs like Emerald Fennell – there’s a direct stylistic throughline between Marie Antoinette and “Wuthering Heights” , for example. Critics complained that it ends just as the story gets interesting, but that misses the point.
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