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The tone wasn't quite right in this version


Overall, I mostly liked this version. I thought Zoe Saldana was great as Rosemary, although I was initially skeptical when I heard she had been cast in the role.

But the tone wasn't right.

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but the whole film felt too bright! When is Paris that bright and sunny all the time? Even their apartments were so bright, with those huge windows. Don't get me wrong, you can do good horror in broad daylight (as in the scene from the Polanski version with Mia Farrow panicking in the phonebooth when she realizes they are all in the conspiracy). But I think the filmmakers could have gone a long way toward helping set a tone more appropriate to the story if they had set more scenes at night and in dark, brooding interior locations (one trip to the catacombs and a flashback to a dark alley don't cut it).

And as others have mentioned in other threads, the music just didn't sync right with the scenes in which it was used.

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