Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BUT there is music here, and beauty in the striving: "A blade of grass can be the world ...that the world is nothing without it." And Widerberg shows us the truth in his most masterful technical strokes. With his camera lens wide open, the depth of field is reduced, and...
UNFORTUNATELY, Widerberg manages to blur other scenes he clearly does not want to blur. The wide-open lens causes objects to bounce in and out of focus, and the effect is annoying. The director has other technical problems. The cuts between scenes are sloppy; there are no smooth transitions.
Indoors, however, it is another matter. The yellow afternoon light filtering in through the windows creates a perfect effect. Widerberg seems more interested when he gets inside. The scene in the first hotel room is shot with a huge lens, making an unusual and effective flattening out--with Elvira, Sparre...
ONE senses that Hunter has tenuous control of his experiment; time is a tricky business. When he makes mistakes, however, he proceeds to rectify them, right out in the open, so everybody can profit. Anastasia discovers her brother's camera and turns to him with a slight smile. (She acts...
The number of perversions available to writers is much more limited. Voyeurism makes for a good opener--usually a man spying on women at a swimming pool, private beach or health resort. "The Girl Killer" begins with a sexual sadist and necrophiliac watching women sunbathe on a tenement roof through...