The look of this movie is quite strange. It basically looks like it’s been shot on a 2003-era digital camera? Everything super sharp and often a bit too bright.
Even the flashback scenes look like this.
See!? That’s totally a digital camera from 2003.
Hm… perhaps there’s like several layers of nostalgia going on. The actors seem and the dialogue seems to be from a Douglas Sirk 50s movie, and then you’ve got 70s Vietnam stuff, and then the 2003 video camera…
This kinda looks like CGI…
Oh, I didn’t realise until now that Swinton is trying to do an American accent.
Wow, this is really something else. I thought at the start that it was totally like a Douglas Sirk fest, but then things got slightly more ambiguous than his melodramas are like — before totally doubling down on the Sirkness. (That’s a word.)
Fantastic!
I’m still wondering why Almodóvar used cameras with that overtly digital look.
The Room Next Door. Pedro Almodóvar. 2024.
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No, that’s a big whopping camera (underneath the reflector).
Heh, that’s a lot of reflection.
See? Big camera.