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Photos by Takashi

Another View of

We're No

Seida

Angels

by Robin Brunet
Perhaps it's inevitable that a big
budget period feature starring
Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn as
convicts on the run would be sus¬

ceptible to media accounts of star
turns and production difficulties.

For the four months that
Paramount's We're No Angels shot
near

Vancouver, BC, local tabloids

generated some far-out hyperbole:
Penn had permission to okay or
nix scenes; director of photogra¬
phy Philippe Rousselot was pour¬
ing colored water on a frozen lake
in order to fake its liquefied state;
a major monastery set - part of a
border town built by production
designer Wolf Kroeger - had
blown away; and the veteran
Vancouver crew, under the super¬
vision of director Neil Jordan, was

unprepared for the harsh Cana¬
dian winter production schedule.
Rousselot

many

60

was

one

of

who would have, if sought

American

Cinematographer

out

by the gossips, quickly put

each

rumor

to rest. "Sean Penn

given permission to okay scenes?
really the
nicest guy to work with. He
couldn't have been more profes¬
sional. As for pouring colored

That's ridiculous! He's

water

on

the frozen lake which our

border town is
built around, we
had considered
that solution, as
well as using dy¬
namite. In the end

simply ridiculous. The film is set in
winter. We were all ready for the
cold season, but many times the
climate was so mild we had to fake
snowfalls. Actually, having shot
on Canada's east coast, I was
pre¬

pared for something far
than what transpired."

We're No

Produced by Art Linson
Directed by Neil Jordan

Phillipe Rousselot,
Director of photography

just waited a
few weeks until the lake thawed

by itself.
"The monastery set

blo¬

wing away? Not true! It was such
a
huge building, used for so many
key scenes, that Wolf Kroeger had
it structurally engineered. It wasn't
away! Finally, the

idea of the local

prepared for

February 1990

a

crew not
being
winter shoot is

Angels is a remake
of the Humphrey
Bogart classic in
name
only. It is a
character comedy
about two

we

about to blow

worse

con¬

victs who

disguise themselves as
priests, hide out in a depression era
border town, and plot to cross that
town's bridge into Canada when
the coast is clear (neither is adept
enough to simply swim across the
lake). This is Neil Jordan's first
movie on this continent, and it
follows his High Spirits, which died
a box office death two
years ago.



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