Ahead of the Oscars, where he’s nominated for best cinematography, Darius Khondji talks about his masterful collaboration with director Alejandro González Iñárritu
was no different, and like any of his previous collaborations, began with a conversation.
. “I understood, beyond words, the importance of what he was telling me and how important the film was for him. I think he felt that.”goes much further, offering not so much a biographical account as a moment of catharsis, a chance to exorcise the trauma, insecurity and personal guilt that has weighed heavily over the last two decades.
he can still recall finding himself in a school, “surrounded by people who looked completely unlike me”, and resenting the feeling of being conspicuously other, “at a time when you just want to fit in”. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Mexico, where Khondji travelled during lockdown in preparation for the film.“I felt very close to Mexican people when I went there, in a very physical way,” explains Khondji. “Alejandro and I walked into downtown Mexico City and that was very important for me, as important as reading the script or being told about the movie. I felt very at ease there – it was the first place outside of Paris where I really didn’t miss Paris.
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