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The Movie "Hanna"


Jeffry Abt

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One of my favorite movies of the last year. There are a few scenes where I can see them possibly using it, the girls sleeping in the tent to name one. No directional lighting and very shallow DOF on the girls eyes and lips would make it the perfect candidate. My question is what camera would they have used?

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"Arri Media in London supplied KĂĽchler with two other lenses, an f/0.95 50mm Leica Noctilux and a custom-built 25mm Zeiss prime lens that had its front element reversed.

 

“The Noctilux is the most beautiful lens I have ever used, and I wish there were a whole set of lenses made from the same glass,” says the cinematographer. “It does magic to flesh tones. We used it for Hanna’s flashback of her mother [played by Vicki Kreips], a scene we shot in the absolute last light of day.

 

It was so dark I didn’t even bother to take a light reading, but I felt optimistic that something beautiful would come of it because of the Noctilux. Vicki was standing at a frozen lake, and we lit her with an LED ring light that we dimmed down during the shot. She just fades into the background like a distant memory.”

 

I was wrong about the scene but you were right about the Noctilux. Now that the cinematographer mentions that scene I can picture in my mind how he implemented it. Seem like they simply had a adapter for the Noctilux that allowed it to be fitted to an Arri.

 

 

The article can be read here

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