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Showing posts with label A Field in England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Field in England. Show all posts
Friday, July 12, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
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*spoilers within*
A Field in England is a testament to what you can do with a couple of costumes, some great actors and an eye for cinematography. It's also a lesson on how little you really need to make a movie - get a couple of DV cameras, head out to a field and just starting shooting. There's a ton of limitations to shooting on a micro-budget like this and Wheatley demonstrates how to cleverly work around them - showing how to suggest with mood, dialogue and old fashioned cinematic sleight of hand what you don't have the money to put on screen.
All of this is important, because A Field in England is one weird as hell film with, to put it mildly, questionable commercial potential. Yet it's a film that raises interesting questions,: allowing Wheatley to continue his interrogation of the relationship between modern Britain and our violent, oppressive and chaotic history.
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