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ollowing in great tradition of FDutch cinematographers like
Robby Muller and Jan de Bont who have broken through internationally, Hoyte van
Hoytema is now beginning to make his mark on world cinema.
His American debut, The Fighter, co-starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams, tells the story of real-life world welterweight boxing champion ‘Irish’ Micky Ward. And now van Hoytema is currently in the UK also for the first time shooting a big screen version of John Le Carre’s classic Cold War thriller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
His ‘calling card’ has undoubtedly been the extraordinary, offbeat Swedish vampire chiller Let The Right One In, winner of some 50 international film awards including no fewer than six for van Hoytema himself.
So successful was the 2008 film been that it’s already been re-made
and released by Hollywood as Let Me In with almost indecent haste even by opportunist Stateside standards.
Van Hoytema says he wouldn’t ever have wanted to be involved in it: “You’ve done the story the way you’ve wanted to do it; you accept your mistakes and move on, looking forward to the next project. No, I don’t think I’d have been the wisest choice for it, and it is kind of crazy the remake came out quite so quickly after the original.”
It’s, however, still a sharp rise to more general recognition after spending the years following film school in Lodz, Poland working in Scandinavia first on features in Norway then on some successful Swedish television mini series thrillers.
These included Return Of The Dancing Master, a sort of Wallender spin-off from the same source, writer Henning Mankel, The Laser Man and A Matter Of Life And Death.
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