FUCK. Didn’t believe Lily was gonna deliver for like the first two hours but then that scene before they fuck…omg!!! Her face literally transformed that was so cool. Also the lighting design in this deserves so many awards it was so beautiful every second. Also so many interesting camera choices and editing choices, like a lot of the movements were ken burns maybe? It felt very much like an editing thing I’d try to play with in iMovie when I…
Showed to Sophia and Jackson and they liked 😍
Watched in German didn’t understand anything but had fun
Christopher Doyle cinematography ❤️ heterosexual love but through the lens of a gay man, so both male and female character have the same power and equality in the framing. Fantasy that cannot be. Reference for construction workers kissing project…interest in straight male relationships and boyhood from lack of that as a gay child.
^free association notes from film theory class
Formless love in the eyes of Portrait of A Lady On Fire and Maya Deren (a review I wrote for my cinema studies class)
For this week's discussion post I am choosing to discuss Portrait of A Lady On Fire in conjunction with Maya Deren's "Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality". Portrait of A Lady On Fire is a film about two french women, one a painter and one soon to be wed against her will. The painter is commissioned…