Cinematographer Paul Guilhaume breaks down the shoot-out climax to Jacques Audiard's transgender crime musical.
has been taken hostage by her former wife Jessi and her new lover Gustavo , who don’t know Pérez’s true identity. Whenarrives, with armed backup, for the ransom exchange, a shootout ensues and Emilia finally reveals her true identity to Jessi through a song. The scene encapsulates the film’s themes of identity, transformation, and the price of redemption. And, as Guilhaume tells it, it was among the most challenging to shoot.
My favorite shot from the sequence is when Rita and the soldiers are preparing for the attack. We filmed the whole choreography from outside the room through the windows, with a slow zoom-in combined with a camera movement. The shot starts as a wide of the soldiers preparing their weapons, and this sound is the only one we perceive from their world. The shot ends on Rita’s face, so close to her emotion and anxiety.
The film’s electric color palette had its cues in the costume and production design and also acts to contrast with scenes set in the dark and strong daylight. For all of the night scenes, I had full reign from Jacques to explore darkness so as long as we saw the actor’s faces. In those dark environments, we focused on deep reds, and some deep greens and tried during the whole film to avoid pastel colors. By the end, in this final sequence, the color palette has blended and become greyer.
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