HE to Venice Film Festival viewer: “What’s with the soft-focus appearance of Wes Anderson‘s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix, 9.27 streaming)? Not to mention the very slight blueish tint? Was it shot in 16mm or something? It looks odd.”
Venice Film festival viewer to HE: “That was not my experience of it in Venice at all — it was pristine, perfectly focused, and correct in color. [And yet} it apparently was shot in 16mm. But it didn’t look hazy in Venice. The whole color scheme as it appears in the trailer does tend to blue, but that’s as much a function of the art direction as anything else. You can’t judge the whole by the trailer.”