![]() ![]() He tells the children that their parents have burned to death in a most unfortunate event, which is awful, but will hopefully be the last one they have to endure. Then there’s the maudlin lullaby of the movie’s soundtrack by Thomas Newman which combines with the visuals to ensure that this film has atmosphere to burn.Īnyway our story begins with the Baudelaire children Violet (Emily Browning), Klaus (Liam Aiken) and Sunny (Klara and Shelby Hoffman) being visited on a bleak and forbidding beach by their family banker Mr Poe, played by Timothy Spall (God damn). He worked with Tim Burton on Sleepy Hollow, the movie that this film most reminds me of and it’s an aesthetic that I don’t think I will ever get tired of. He’s the only person in history to win three consecutive Academy awards for cinematography which is proof that even the Academy gets things right sometimes. The movie’s cinematography was done by Emmanuel Lubezki. What it is, by the by, is bloody smurges: The movie begins with a happy little animated sequence about a happy little elf before abruptly grinding to a halt and Lemony Snicket (Jude Law, god damn) solemnly informing us that this ain’t that kinda movie, fam. That is, something only a monster would do. ![]()
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