Tetro (2009)

Rich, fascinating story with great characters...Coppolas' love of theatre and it's characters very apparent. Characters are more a force of nature than just related. The truth will alway come out. Too bad the Kabuki Theatre in San Francsico is showing Tetro with the right hand side out of focus...about a third of the image or so. Drives me nuts. Isn't this 2009? With all the development in theatre, film, lenses, etc. we still have to watch movies with parts of them out of focus? Makes me long for the DVD, to finally see the film the way it was shot.

Oh, one more thing...or two...the score for this film is gorgeous. The second thing...skin tones with this new cinema, seem to be kind of gray flat in many, but not all scenes. Seems like the choice of lighting for the entire scenes...including the outdoor cafe table scenes work for the environment, but let the faces go a bit to gray and without enough pop to them. LIke I said, doesn't happen for the whole film...but does in plenty of it. In the old days of portrait work, men would be photographed with a green filter, as it made the man's skin tone darker, due to the relationship of the green filter, the warmth of the skin color, and the panchromatic film. THey didn't use it on the gals. They sued to add a tiny dose of cold cream...just a dot, and smear it on the gals faces to give them highlights...ok...class over.

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