Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine, a close study of a marriage breakup that starred Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, may have looked painstakingly crafted.
On Saturday, Cianfrance told a Toronto Film Festival masterclass that his hand-held shoot for the lost-love drama, full of close-ups, was shot with little rehearsal and ample on-set discovery. "I don't even like looking at actors with my own eyes when I'm shooting.
I'm right next to them, but I'm in a monitor, and I have a rule on set that no one can look at them," he insisted. Despite sexually explicit scenes involving Gosling and Williams, Cianfrance added he saw the entire shoot for Blue Valentine as virtually a closed set. "I feel like every scene is like a sex scene.
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