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Left: At a formal lunch that stretches into the evening, the Recchi family patriarch (Gabriele Ferzetti, with back to camera) announces his plans to retire. Below left: The lighting setup for the scene. Below right: Preparing for another key scene that centers upon a meal — Emma’s rapturous experience at Antonio’s restaurant — cinematographer Yorick Le Saux adjusts a Kino Flo for Swinton’s close-up.
I Am Love features two extended sequences in the palazzo’s dining room. In the first, more than a dozen members of the Recchi family gather to celebrate Edoardo Sr.’s birthday. In the second, the Recchis are entertaining prospective buyers of the company over dinner, which Emma has hired Antonio to cook. Concerned about the length of the first scene, Le Saux decided to break it up visually, determining that a traditional Italian lunch
could easily stretch from midday into evening. “I thought it would be a good idea to start the lunch in daylight, then mix daylight and tungsten sources, and then go into night,” he says. “For the second dinner, where Emma’s son discovers her affair, I found a new way to show this room: with candles, like an annunciation of death.” To prepare for the first dinnertable scene, Le Saux spent long hours in the location “watching how the natural
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light played and moved inside the house.” For the day scenes, he set two 6K HMIs and a 4K outside the enormous windows and bounced that light off the floor. By the time Edoardo Sr. makes his speech, night has fallen, and the lighting has changed to a strong overhead source bouncing off the white tablecloth; the bounce “reflects onto the faces of the people as a sort of inner light from that class,” Guadagnino marvels. “I think Yorick was very clever
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - July 2010
The International Journal of Motion Imaging - July 2010 Vol. 91 No. 7
Features
Dream Thieves (Inception)
Elements of Power (The Last Airbender)
An Emotional Rebirth (I Am Love)
Crowning Achievements (The Tudors)
Departments
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: “Telephone”
Production Slate: Lie to Me • The Killer Inside Me
Post Focus: Enhancing Frozen
Filmmakers’ Forum: Gale Tattersall
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoria: Karl Malkames, ASC • Vincent Martinelli, ASC
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Thomas A. Del Ruth
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