It reminds me a lot of Merchant Ivory films like Howards End and A Room With A View , it's just a visual treat well made with a great deal of care being taken with period detail and it looks great. What do other fans think?
Go to bed Frank or this is going to get ugly.
I watched this movie on DVD last evening and I couldn't agree more.
I also was profoundly impressed with the costumes. Charlotte Rampling's blue, fruity number is quite stunning.
The film captures the Edwardian/late Art Nouveau period rather well....I particularly liked the gallery seuquence with the Klimt and Kokoschka paintings and the Mackintosh ladder chairs in the background.
Great movie and Bonham Carter is stunning in it as well!
I loved the cinematography too.
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Sandy Powell's costumes and Eduardo Serra's cinematography brought the period back to life in a visually seductive and dizzling way. The art direction was also very good and I can't understand how it wasn't nominated for an Oscar in that category.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Eduardo Serra is a great cinematographer with an eye for beauty - check his Oscar-nominated work in "Girl with a Pearl Earring".
"I did cramps the way Meryl Streep did accents" - Calliope (Middlesex)
I've been meaning to watch it just to enjoye Serra's cinematography. He's one of the underrated masters of cinematography.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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"I did cramps the way Meryl Streep did accents" - Calliope (Middlesex)
Agree. Both the costumes and set decoration were gorgeous, and the cinematography was beautiful. A carefully constructed, visual treat complete with fantastic acting.
shareIt is. I was somewhat disapointed in the movie and I've seen it twice(one and one half times actually) but visually it's in my top 5. It looks like a piece of artwork. One of the most visually stunning flicks I've ever seen.
shareThe production design deliberately used a lot of blues, especially Prussian blue, to mark a kind of lush decadence of the early 20th Century, of Venice and of the lives of these characters. It also gives a moodiness verging on depression, which is both alluring and disturbing. I can't recall the magazine (something like "Traditional Home", but this film was featured in an article on recreating movie sets in regular homes. I'd be afraid to recreate THIS one, gorgeous as it is!
I thought the blues and other dark tones were great choices. They give a sense of foreboding, long before the threesome figures out what the consequences of their menage-a-trois will be. Yes, it IS a beautiful film!
She deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die.
So beautiful. It was definitely a visual treat. The final scene between Millie and Merton in that sun drenched room before her death was gorgeous. The room, the lighting, the costumes, the actors. Perfect.
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