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Top: Jean (Carey
Mulligan) talks
with Davis in
Washington
Square in this
frame grab.
Bottom: The
filmmakers capture
the pair's walkand-talk.

straightforward, with angles and
reverses for dialogue scenes, and few
unusual vantage points. Using the
French word for shot breakdown,
Delbonnel observes, "The Coens'
découpage is very simple, very classical.
There are no embellishments."
Though much of Inside Llewyn
Davis has classical editing, the filmmakers shot many scenes with continuous
master shots, notably the musical
performances, which were often filmed
without interruption. Lillian notes that
with the Coens, "a lot of the coverage
happens within the master. The masters
tend to evolve into something elaborate." There are a few fast camera moves
motivated by the wayward Ulysses.
Lillian cites a 100' dolly move on a New
York street that follows Davis as he tries
to catch the cat. Fortunately, says
Lillian, dolly grip Rick Marroquin is a
"fast marathon runner!"
Delbonnel has a predilection for
soft lighting. "My signature is a source

with double diffusion, and sometimes I
do triple diffusion. Then, I add a little
fill inside, or not. If I do, it's very soft,
and it's usually a poly [polystyrene
bounce] or something simple. I rarely
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use hard lighting, although I did for a
couple of scenes on this film."
Lillian notes that Delbonnel
often used book lights, "with one
bounce surface and another diffusion
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