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Folk Implosion

Top: Davis
thumbs for a
ride along the
highway.
Bottom: The
exhausted
singer rests
on the bus.

with someone as precise as Delbonnel.
"This works because Bruno is so meticulous about his exposures. He knows
exactly what will happen [in the DI], so
he can light for it, whereas if I were
constantly bending the gamma and
changing everything on a shot-by-shot
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basis, he wouldn't really know what his
contrast ratio would be. I grade for his
lighting, and he lights for my grade."
Delbonnel likens his digital work
with Doyle to a special lab process such
as ENR. "It's exactly the same
approach: When you use ENR, you
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don't expose normally, you expose for
the ENR."
Doyle explains how they arrived
at Inside Llewyn Davis' unusual pastel
coloring and pale flesh tones: "I got rid
of the blue channel, which I do a lot
these days, and remapped the colors so
that the skin tones had just enough of a
twist to not be realistic, to be a little
romanticized, like a memory. To desaturate the skin would look unnatural, so
instead we bent the RGB curves of the
negative so the skin tone would be
completely neutral with Bruno's exposure. It's a very delicate thing to do."
"This film couldn't be beautiful or
golden - it had to be uncomfortable,"
Delbonnel says. "The question was how
to come up with a very sad, very dirty
image without falling into the extreme
of a completely blue winter, which bores
me - you know, 'yellow equals warm,
blue equals cold.' We went toward dirty
magentas and cyan, two colors that
oppose each other."
Delbonnel and Doyle also
applied a "bloom" to the image, suffusing the highlights with a softened
texture. "The bloom was a way to



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