Girl with a Pearl Earring: The director talks
Having said that, there's a bunch of stuff I cut out that I'm quite proud of, but it just didn't work. Scenes that the people who have read the novel will undoubtedly miss. Though they'll get to see them later on, on DVD. This film had to be bare and taut, and I didn't want it to be self-indulgent. I'd rather leave people wanting more than wanting less. And because it had its own pace and its own kind of peculiar atmosphere - it's quite a delicate fragile film on one level - I got busy with the scissors.
There's a very claustrophobic feel to the whole film. How did you achieve that?
Lighting, set design, camera work, and it's also to do with the scenes that we excluded. Some of those were outdoor scenes that let the air out of the film, and that's why they had to be cut.
Which your favourite scene in the movie?
The ear piercing scene. The atmosphere on set when we shot that scene was really charged. And you knew you were photographing a real event rather than some simulacrum. I remember how the hairs stuck up on the back of my neck when I went in for that close-up on Scarlet. A tear welled up in her eye and rolled down her cheek, and it was just a perfect moment.
What films have you seen recently?
I loved Lost in Translation and In America. And there have been a lot of good documentaries too like Fog of War.
Girl With A Pearl Earring is out on January 16th
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