the class-o-matic

apropos of nothing ..

Whilst (ha) re-searching for a current project - I've been looking at
a wonderful mixture of still images from Sofia Coppolla's marvelous film, Marie Antoinette.

Whether you liked the film or not - the films art direction is utterly brilliant.

Comprehensivley elegant -  in both concept and execution,  ( ....  it's all there, perfectly, in the right place, in the right way ) - the films designers created a beautifully subtle,  in fact, masterful colour sense.  Which is allied of course -  with their obsessive attention to and real appreciation of period detail. Clearly the art director, built a beautiful film, based upon an acute awareness of  the period's manners, amusements and ambitions -  and was able to lovingly articulate them, with both charming wit and a real virtuosity.

To me the films brilliance, is most often found in these very details, and, as in any great
work, they resonate throughout it. 

FYI, when the film was shot , it was overexposed sightly, then in post, the gama was digitally further modified, by compressing  the mid tones, giving the film a washed-out feeling. ( it's called a wash, and recently it was done again for the film Atonement )

check out the dog bed, jeez. cleeqez to enlarge the images

http://missatlaplaya.blogspot.com/2007/06/marie-antoinette.html

for more, do visit the above site, it's rather marvelous