Word: closeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite their perfection, the cuts like the camera motions are made deeply affecting by the background's quality of malleability. One closeup in bed is extremely disturbing because in the dark the characters' faces become part of the tangibly expressive world of the background. More generally, the characters' detailed actions in the foreground gain incredible emotional resonance from the deeply colored backgrounds, and when a tracking shot turns a corner with a character and sets the background plane at a different angle, the affective quality of the shot is completely changed...