Ed Lachman On ‘El Conde,’ Alfonso Cuarón And Pablo Larraín Being “The Most Interesting South American Filmmakers” & The Chilean’s Maria Callas Biopic — Camerimage
deadline.comTwo-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman looked shattered by the time he sat down with us for an interview here at EnergaCamerimage in Torun, Poland. “I broke my hip, and it didn’t heal correctly.
Now I’ve got an operation,” Lachman said of his physical state. “But he called me again to do this film,” Lachman continued, referring to Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, whom he has briefly left on set in Budapest where they are shooting a Steven Knight-scripted Maria Callas biopic starring Angelina Jolie. “I said yeah, sure, I’ll do it.
And before that, I had lead poisoning, so it’ll just go on and on.” He added: “It’s amazing what you can get by with if you try.” Lachman’s injury occurred last year after he finished shooting Larraín’s black-and-white Augusto Pinochet satire El Conde, which he is promoting here at Camerimage.
The inventive feature, which took the best screenplay award at Venice, is set in a parallel universe where fascist Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet exists as a vampire.
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