Photo of a photo
The Melbourne International Film Festival is over, and I saw no films. On Saturday though, I did go and see an exhibition of photopgraphy by the Australian cinematographer
Christopher Doyle. Doyle has mostly worked in Asia, particularly with a director named
Wong Kar Wai.
The photographs on display were taken by Doyle during the shooting of a number of films - most of them appear to be of actors rehearsing or waiting for the next shot or scene. All of the photos show elements of the style that characterises Doyle's work - often just-out-of-focus, or strangely coloured, obscured, or oddly lit. Doyle is a master of hiding part of the image and asking the viewer to deduce what should be there.
This photo (my photo of a photo) is of Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung on the set of
"In the mood for love" (click on the photo to see a larger version).

After we saw the exhibition, we rented the DVD of "In the mood for love" and watched it that night. So maybe in a way we did see something in the festival.