Framed to Perfection XXVII

TIEFER BLAUER SCHNEE (1981)

Director: Fred Noczynski

Cinematographer: Martin Rötger

I’ve only just started watching Tiefer Blauer Schee, a one-minute-away-from-being-a-short-film I found on a compilation of German family shorts, so the only thing I know thus far is that it features a family traipsing through the snow to get to… somewhere.

I have a funny feeling this is the whole film.

But, much to my delight, I am being bombarded with thoughtful shot compositions by the minute, which is odd, really, as you’d think little effort would be put into your cinematography under such extreme weather conditions. Unless you’re Renny Harlin, of course.

I’m not usually into wide landscape shots, considering them pretty easy catches, but this one is particularly clever. Hopefully, you get the idea, despite DDR’s usually-poor disc transfer. I’m pretty sure they’re actually designed to self-destruct, like the instructional tapes in Mission: Impossible. 

I hope you are well, as I seem to be experiencing an agonising low-mood attack this week. So, alas, this will probably be the last post you’ll get from me in awhile. Still, as always, should you or any of your IMF Force are caught or killed blah blah blah.

Oh I will be posting so many tributes to Brian De Palma’s wonderful 1996 Mission: Impossible film next year that you will all get fed up so quick. This is a promise, not a threat.

Do stay in touch, darlings.

Toodles!