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feature in focus
“The atmosphere of dread was so fabulously captured by director of photography Haris Zambarloukos.”
invest the environment with an ‘else- whereness’ that, while not grounding it to a specific geography, is unmistak- ably in London... somewhere.
It was crucial to support, yet not specify, the scale of the Tattooed Man’s enterprise. He must seem all-powerful, all-seeing, unavoidable, inevitable. When Jon decides to part company with the Tattooed Man, it’s like an "auto- excommunication" – things can’t help but get messy.
The atmosphere of dread was so fabulously captured by director of photography Haris Zambarloukos. I kept saying to Haris, ‘I need to see the
actors’ eyes,’ and getting a menacing chuckle in reply... he took the dark tone of the story quite literally!
There was a very conscious effort in all departments to avoid the envelop- ing cliché of ‘gangster chic’ that had become so pervasive in the UK cinema. Presumably my Canadianness filtered the London underworld through naïve
eyes. London definitely remains quite exotic to me.
The film has a very violent dimen- sion that I’m happy to say is more sub-
text than subject. The film definitely makes people squirm, yet it’s surpris- ing how much is implied rather than shown. My background as a cine- matographer of fairly staid dramas did not prepare me for the relish with which I approached staging the film’s action scenes.
Directing can be quite a mechani- cal job, and regardless of subject matter, you find yourself on the set with a small army of people
looking for their marching orders. It’s rather exciting.
I must confess it was thrilling to work on Mr In-Between." ■
Mr In-Between, to be released by Verve Pictures in
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October, was origin”ated on Fujicolor Motion Picture Negative