Min Man Ma

Man to man de Régis Wargnier
Le film n’est pas un film " à effets spéciaux ".
Comme souvent, la vingtaine de plans truqués n’est là que pour servir cette histoire superbe, sans ostentation et je l’espère dans l’invisibilité. (...)

“No Man of God” is a behind-closed-doors look into a cell where an FBI agent is interrogating a serial killer. It is an adaptation of authentic recordings made by Bill Hagmaier during his interviews with Ted Bundy. Director Amer Sealey and her DoP Karina Silva implemented directorial and cinematographic strategies to portray these sequences, which are all alike on paper, in order to impart rhythm to the film. “No Man of God” is in competition this year at Torun in the “Cinematographers’ Debuts Competition”. (FR)

No Man of God est une sorte de huis clos dans une cellule d’interrogation entre un agent du FBI et un tueur en série, adapté des enregistrements authentiques effectués par Bill Hagmaier lors de ses entretiens avec Ted Bundy. La réalisatrice Amber Sealey et sa directrice de la photographie Karina Silva ont dû mettre en place des stratégies de mise en scène et d’image pour traiter ces séquences qui se ressemblent toutes sur le papier et trouver le rythme du film. No Man of God est en compétition cette année à Toruń dans la catégorie "Meilleure première photographie pour un film." (FR)

Darius Khondji, AFC, ASC, is collaborating with Woody Allen for the fifth time on Irrational Man, an official Out of Competition selection at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. _ Having most recently worked on several period pictures—James Gray’s The Immigrant, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Magic in the Moonlight, and The Devil You Know, a pilot for a series directed by Gus Van Sant—Darius admits finding great pleasure in returning to a contemporary universe.

Laurent Brunet, who has photographed all of Raphael Nadjari’s films (including Tehilim, selected at Cannes in 2007), has a lot of experience filming abroad. But he didn’t know Africa, which he discovered while collaborating for the first time with Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the only African to compete at Cannes 2010, with his fourth feature film, A Screaming Man. The original title was A Screaming Man is not a Dancing Bear a quote from The Notebook, Returning Home by the poet Aimé Césaire.

During our first meeting with Jean-Pierre Améris, I understood that this film would have a very distinctive graphic universe because of its story and historical setting and because of the visual references from films and paintings that were given to me (Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, by Tim Burton, Dracula, by Francis F. Coppola, etc.).

Consciously very different than the traditional American hero saga, Damien Chazelle’s biopic First Man is intended to be intimate and sober and depicts the difficulties of a couple in the aftermath of the loss of their first child. Cinematographer Linus Sandgren, FSF, used a variety of different cinematographic techniques for each particular take on this film where he is again working with its young director, both of whom were Oscar winners for La La Land. Here, he discusses with us the slightly-less glamorous, but just as important, aspects of the making of this film. (FR)

In the 1970s and 1980s, Bulgaria is one of the most communist countries in the world. The "Russian Big Brother" does not even bother to dispatch an occupation army there as the Bulgarian population fully adheres to the system. Propaganda is beyond effective and one risks one’s life at the mere hint of a protest.

Darius Khondji AFC, ASC, renouvelle sa collaboration avec Woody Allen pour la cinquième fois avec Irrational Man, en Sélection officielle Hors compétition à ce 68^e Festival de Cannes. Après avoir travaillé dernièrement sur plusieurs films d’époque – The Immigrant, de James Gray, Midnight in Paris et Magic in the Moonlight, de Woody Allen, et The Devil You Know, pilote réalisé par Gus Van Sant pour une série –, Darius avoue retrouver avec beaucoup de plaisir un univers contemporain.