"So the actors are performing the dialogue, but Terry isn't interested in dialogue," Emmanuel Luzbeki told the Los Angeles Times' Steven Zeitchik. The resulting film speaks to memory and sensations rather than plot. As is typical with Malick, the director eschewed strict adherence to script readings from his actors - and had his cameraman focus on more ephemeral aspects of the scene. The narrative of "Tree of Life" is both extremely intimate and cosmic in scope, alluding to the creation and evolution of life on Earth, as well as how a family deals with birth and death. More than for most any director working today, cinematography in Terrence Malick's films - from "Badlands" and "Days of Heaven" to "The Thin Red Line" and "The New World" - evokes deeply personal worlds for the characters, while at the same time captures the daunting, sometimes remorseless landscapes of the natural world. "Dragon Tattoo"'s look was inspired by the films of director Ingmar Bergman and his cameraman, Sven Nykvist (with whom Cronenweth had worked): While the cool, indirect Swedish light penetrates scenes in an icy, tense way, the scenes in the story's darker recesses - including car chases through sleet and rain - underscore the characters' search for clues in a mystery, and the morbid dangers they face. Filming took place in Sweden, Zurich and Norway, with interiors in Los Angeles. He captured the film's chilly Scandinavian landscapes with an RED digital camera, which proved highly adaptable for a story so dark in both lighting and morality. Jeff Cronenweth has proven fruit doesn't fall far from the tree: The son of the late master cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth ("Blade Runner"), Jeff has made a name for himself as DP of David Fincher's "Fight Club" and "The Social Network" (the latter earning him an Oscar nomination).įor "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Fincher's adaptation of the Stieg Larsson thriller (previously filmed as a Swedish production), Cronenweth actually stepped in to the production after principal photography had already started, replacing the original DP. Cinematographers guild picks best of 2011
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