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Australia (2008)
1/10
As bad as they come
18 April 2009
Warning: Spoilers
The photography of the outback country was OK but how can you go wrong with that? The interior C.U's looked like they were shot on the studio back lot before 'going green' and saving electricity had been thought off! I felt sorry for DOP Mandy Walker – surely the dead hand of Baz was responsible. The Matt work appalling. The focal lengths between plate and foregrounds were obviously at fault. None of this would have really stood out or mattered so much if the story and acting (except perhaps for Hugh Jackman) had been the least bit believable or entertaining. I have worked with Aboriginals in the similar locations, people with great natural dignity and charm – not obvious in this picture!

Is one star being over generous
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The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener (2005)
3/10
Strange Cinematography
7 February 2007
Unbearably fidgety camera work, for little or no reason it never stopped moving, tracking in, tracking out, hand held, on dolly, tilted one way then the next, knee high, up in a helicopter, down in a pit looking up. Why not give the actors room to work instead of how clever is the camera. lighting, what lighting? No shot long enough to be able to judge. What disservice to John Carre and the superb actors who were but a background to the camera. What was going through director's (Meirelles)mind? Why distract from the brilliant story with this overly mobile camera and using such very short takes, let us look at the actors faces, they are the stars not the camera. The music was superb!
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