Bruno Delbonnel AFC, ASC Illuminates on Inside Llewyn Davis
Bruno Delbonnel is one of the few cinematographers who can sit between the rigorously controlled palettes of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie and A Very Long Engagement, the desaturation of Faust, and the diffused winter palette of the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis — the film he came to Camerimage 2013 to talk about. We caught him for one of our BiteSize Dailies shortly after his masterclass. Light that falls off Delbonnel’s central note about the film is one image: light that doesn’t reach. Inside Llewyn Davis is a story about a man whose career, friendships and weather all turn against him in the same week, and Delbonnel’s lighting reads that subtext directly into the frame. ...