So delighted I got to see Pirjo Honkasalo's excellent Concrete Night last week, since I had been looking forward to doing so for several months. One of the finest elements of this exceptionally well-designed film is Peter Flinckenberg's gorgeous cinematography. Dusky lighting, as if the image had been submerged under milky water, the sunlight and artificial light streaming through windows and gaps in the clouds, it's a magical composition Flinckenberg has created. And despite its astounding beauty, the photography in Concrete Night never overshadows the story Honkasalo is telling, nor the themes she is stressing. My favourite cinematography of 2013:
- Peter Flinckenberg (Concrete Night)
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel (Leviathan)
- Claire Mathon (Stranger by the Lake)
- Lauro Rene Manda (Norte, the End of History)
- Kiko de la Rica (Blancanieves)
- Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)
- Edward Lachman and Wolfgang Thaler (Paradise: Faith)
- Anthony Dod Mantle (Rush)
- Manuel Dacosse (The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears)
- Philippe Le Sourd (The Grandmaster)
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