Not exact matches
As a stylist, she is on a level with Douglas Sirk in her gracefully sweeping crane / dolly
camera work, and her lighting and direction of actors recalls the
noirish tendencies of Robert Aldrich and Don Siegel.
Lou Ye's film also draws from Hollywood film noir, using a voice - over narration to recount the story in flashback while the narrator is determinedly kept offscreen, the
camera taking his place — which is probably derived from Robert Montgomery's gimmicky,
noirish Raymond Chandler adaptation Lady in the Lake (1946).
They played ingénues — young housewives, career girls — threatened, in
noirish, B - movie solo scenes, by unnamed dangers lurking just out of
camera range.