That blending of animation and live action, familiar in practice (Mary Poppins, Pete's Dragon, etc.) but unprecedented in complexity, must be especially
seamless in order to work
because the movie, by
design, treats it as no big deal.
None of that is important for the first 30 - 40 minutes of the movie, though,
because Cuarón and his team of collaborators — notably Emmanuel Lubezki (gorgeous cinematography), Steven Price (unsettling musical score), Mark Sanger (
seamless editing with Cuarón), and Andy Nicholson (meticulous production
design)-- have created a setting and a mood and a tempo and a feeling that sweeps from sheer beauty quickly into sheer, sustained terror.
The homeowner tasked Ingrid Oomen with developing a
seamless design for a 70 - square - foot laundry room
because it's visible through French doors off a high - traffic corridor.