Tasmanian - born writer - director Damien Power's holiday - from - hell thriller Killing Ground combines great aesthetic elegance —
including beautiful cinematography and naturalistic editing — with an acrid, lingering foulness, derived from knife - edge performances and a terrifying premise executed with airtight verisimilitude.
Killing Ground combines great aesthetic elegance -
including beautiful cinematography and naturalistic editing - with an acrid, lingering foulness, derived from knife - edge performances and a terrifying premise executed with airtight verisimilitude.
Not exact matches
While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white
cinematography is quite
beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life,
including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her,
including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.
Robby Müller's stunningly
beautiful and exquisitely composed black - and - white
cinematography, which
includes a wide range of intermediate grays, is punctuated by fade - outs and blackouts between scenes, as if giving us forecasts of Blake's death even before he's wounded.
The
beautiful, dreamlike quality of The Returned is down to two things: the stunning
cinematography,
including some majestic panoramic vistas, and Mogwai's tense and haunting soundtrack.
From its perfect casting, to its
beautiful story, to its gorgeous
cinematography — which
includes an early 1960's era California, this film is a real treat for the Disney fan or just any movie fan.