Hélène Louvart
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Interior Spaces: Writer/Director Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Lost Daughter
There is a moment early in The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s extraordinary debut film as writer/director/transgressive character whisperer. Leda (Olivia Colman) is on a solo summer vacation in Greece, lost in a reverie, walking on a rocky path. Then, something—a pinecone? a slingshot?—falls from above and pierces her back. Is this intrusion a piercing of persona, of psychic armor? Is it a portent of indignities to come, or perhaps, is it the shock to the system that triggers Leda’s ensuing momentum of memory? The occurrence speaks to everything and perhaps nothing at all. Leda is a British-born academic who has […]
by Madeleine Molyneaux on Jan 18, 2022 -
“When You Get on Set You Don’t Dream Anymore”: DP Hélène Louvart on Beach Rats
Hélène Louvart, collaborating with Wim Wenders, Agnes Varda, Leos Carax, Larry Clark, et al., has shaped herself into a maven of cinematography and her name into a renown of its own. Shooting features since 1986 with, as of now, more than a hundred IMDB cinematographer credits, Louvart’s experience is ample and never slowed. Since Beach Rats, Louvart has shot five feature films: two in Italy, two in Spain, one in Argentina, and one, Mia Hansen-Løve’s Maya, that spanned France, Jordan, and India. During a brief break in Paris before a trip to India to shoot pickups for Maya, Louvart summoned the collaborative process […]
by A.E. Hunt on Mar 1, 2018 -
Hélène Louvart on why the Director of American Mass Shooter Drama Dark Night Wanted a European DP
Since the 1980s, prolific French cinematographer Hélène Louvart has worked with such art-house favorites as Wim Wenders and Agnes Varda. For her new film, she collaborates with writer/director Tim Sutton on Dark Night, a film based on the 2012 movie theater mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. She spoke with Filmmaker ahead of the film’s world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival about her European perspective, natural light and shooting with a very small crew. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to your being hired for this job? Louvart: […]
by Soheil Rezayazdi on Jan 31, 2016
