Through her elliptical style, Denis offers a vivid impression of her heroine's world in pieces, with
gorgeous landscape shots interspersed with images of child soldiers and of a woman slowly coming undone.
Solid performances are tied together by a haunting score and enough
gorgeous landscape shots to make any Fáilte Ireland employee weep shamrocks.
Not exact matches
There are long methodical
shots of
gorgeous landscapes and a meditative pace throughout, showing that he's in no hurry to tell this man's story.
The scenery, consisting of
landscapes, seascapes, sunrises and
shots of the glowing moon, is absolutely
gorgeous.
Shooting on location in Ghana allows The Dead to remove its characters from the zombie genre's typical holed up location and uses the vast,
gorgeous African
landscape to its tremendous advantage.
Granted,
shots of old European architecture and
landscapes aren't exactly a thrilling use of 3D, but many of the film's set pieces are truly spectacular and the 3D helps to accent all the
gorgeous details in every
shot.
The film has some tough competition — Mad Max: Fury Road and The Hateful Eight are among the other nominees — but the joke in some circles has always been that the Oscar for Best Cinematography might as well be called the
Gorgeous Landscapes Award, and that, combined with Lubezki's bold decision to
shoot only with natural light, makes The Revenant seem outright engineered for a win.
Guaranteeing perfect selfies, cracking
landscapes and
gorgeous group
shots.