Jamie passion and passionfruit!

A nice fresh treatment of a coming of age story from New York and a sort of reconciliation with the past.  Dito Montiel wrote the story and directs and writes this small but effective film on one’s memories of teenage life and on our destinies.  The use of music from the era and the natural way the film is shot help a lot to create the right mood and Montiel has gathered a great bunch of actors: Robert Downey Jnr, Rosario Dawson (great in her scene), Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palmintieri and Shia Leboeuf as his young self.

 

Satisfying!

 

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Nominees:

 

Afonso Beato (Love in the time of Cholera)

David Connell (December Boys)

Robert Elswit (There will be blood)

Oscar Faura (El orfanato)

Eric Gautier (Into the Wild)

Rodrigo Prieto (Lust, Caution)

Dean Semler (Apocalypto)

Dariusz Wolski (Sweeney Todd)

 

Winner

 

Dean Semler

 

A worthy winner for two main reasons – the recreation of the jungle and temple scenes and for the dexterity and ability of the chases in the jungle.  Filming speed is one of his specialties.