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fluorescents, tungsten units and
HMIs to bathe the actors in

of color

mixture

a

brash

temperatures,

including green and magenta.
Agitated handheld camerawork also
accompanies the vigorous dance.
Early November marks the
end of springtime in the southern
hemisphere, and weather patterns
are volatile, bringing sudden bursts
of rain followed by bright sunshine.
"The clouds were flying by, casting
fast-moving shadows on the
ground," recalls Gautier, who decid¬
ed to shoot regardless of whether
the shots matched. "It
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was

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minute, cloudy the next, and we

decided

just keep that feeling."
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of a snowstorm, he adds, "we imme¬

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diately improvised and filmed in the
snow."
What Gautier refers

big

and

"the

begin

when

Granado

reach

landscapes"

Guevara

to as

Patagonia. The 16,400'-high moun¬
a cyan-blue haze that is
peculiar to the region; below the

tains float in

mountains is

found

a

massive lake. Gautier

the

extraordinary vista
looked particularly beautiful in low
light. "The right moment for me
was when the sky was very bright
but the sun was covered by a cloud.
Usually that's not considered inter¬
esting light, but in this case I felt it
was ideal
it made the grass white,
the sky silver and the mountains
dark. If I had exposed for the actors
in the foreground, the mountains
would have been too bright and we
-

would have burned

out

the color of

the blue haze. I ended up

underex¬
posing and using grad filters to keep
the subtle blue feeling of the moun¬
tains. I was quite happy with the
result."

The

production moved on to
significant

southern Chile, where

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