Word: filming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie is rife with unusually frank love scenes; Jordan says it's no coincidence that his film, produced independently in the U.K., was made wholly outside the Hollywood studio system: "The End of the Affair is one of the most frankly erotic books ever written. I wanted to make my film's [sex scenes] as truly as the book does. When I see sex scenes between Hollywood actors, they're always terribly violent. They're always shoving each other's head against the wall, or ripping up a table full of crockery and throwing the girl down...
...prepare everything-all the lighting situations, all the camera moves-prepare as much as I possibly can, and if you are that prepared you create a space where the actors can function better." But does all of this control during production give the director an idea of how a film will do commercially? "Haven't got a clue." Critically? "Haven't got a clue either. This is an adult movie, and it deals with themes that you don't see in the cinema very often." Jordan's best films tend to receive modest box-office attention and highly disparate critical...
...world's largest film festival, held every May in Cannes on the French Riviera, also doubles as a more refined Academy Awards. Past winners of the Palme d'Or--Cannes' top prize--have been sex, lies and videotape; Pulp Fiction and Apocalypse Now, all of which were almost completely snubbed when it was time to give out little golden statues in America. It should come as no surprise that Rosetta, this year's controversial winner of the Palm, is being released in the US with little fanfare, and probably to a limited run. It's a shame because films like...
...What bolsters this assertion is the immediate clarity of Rosetta's uncompromisingly bleak vision of the title character's world. In their sophomore outing, the Dardennes have made an art of stripping cinema down to its bare bones. There are no designed interiors--the entire film was shot using locations in the Dardennes' hometown of Seraing, Belgium--or any other ornaments. The photography is dominated by shaky hand-held camera-work, lighting is sparsely natural and casting is reduced to four principal actors. It is initially frustrating and somewhat trying to a North American audience, used...
...present her as a victim; conversely, she is the antithesis: proud, fearless and dynamic. The sole artifice employed to make us fall for Rosetta is by making her the sole significant locus of attention. In fact, in a performance truly remarkable for a woman of 17 (no less a film rookie), Emilie Duquenne, in the title role, fills the lens in every tightly shot frame. Duquenne's performance is one of subtlety and internal calculation. Her vacant expression as she decides whether she should save her drowning friend is absolutely chilling, and the defiance demonstrated when Rosetta catches her mother...