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Unit photography by Alex Bailey, courtesy of The Weinstein Co. Photo of Eigil Bryld courtesy of the cinematographer.
Opposite and
this page, top:
Sophia (Alicia
Vikander) falls
for a young
artist whom her
husband,
Cornelis
Sandvoort
(Christoph
Waltz),
commissions to
paint her portrait
in the feature
Tulip Fever.
Bottom:
Cinematographer
Eigil Bryld.
Cinematographer
Eigil Bryld channels
Dutch Golden Age
painters for the period
drama Tulip Fever.
By Iain Marcks
*|*
P
hotographed by cinematographer
Eigil Bryld and directed by Justin
Chadwick, Tulip Fever is set in a
time and place that many filmmakers love to reference, directly or otherwise: 17th-century Holland. Also
known as the Dutch Golden Age, it was
a period rich with developments in
science and art, and its economic prosperity was fueled by a fanatical obsession
with, of all things, tulips. Indeed, the
visual delight and unpredictable varia-
tion made the flowers a thrilling gamble
among the Dutch aristocracy.
Tulip Fever presents one such
aristocrat, the merchant Cornelis
Sandvoort (Christoph Waltz), whose
heart is fully invested in his young wife,
Sophia (Alicia Vikander). Cornelis
commissions a talented young painter,
one Jan van Loos (Dane DeHaan), to
paint Sophia's portrait. Soon enough, a
passionate romance develops between
the young wife and the talented artist,
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and the two develop a plan to play the
risky tulip market in a bid to secure their
future.
"Painterly" is an adjective cinematographers often use to describe the
way a soft three-quarter key light wraps
around a subject's face - as in the
portraits of Rembrandt - or how the
soft, directional light of a north-facing
window spills into a room - as in the
tableaus of Vermeer. "For me, a painterly
quality has defined sources, strong
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