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>Rohmer shoots fast, but he doesn’t shoot all the time. Most directors arrive in the morning, line up a shot (if they didn’t do it the day before), and film perhaps an hour later, shooting constantly up to the very last minute of the workday. Not Rohmer. He may arrive in the morning and do nothing concrete until noon. Though he may seem to be daydreaming, he acts with amazing speed when he decides what he wants. He may film up to ten screen minutes in a day (the average is three, which is more than acceptable), and then dismiss the crew before the scheduled time. His work rhythm is very irregular: sometimes with no warning he will just not turn up, or he may take time off to run (he was jogging long before it became a fad). I admit that I felt confused at first. But I began to get used to these odd tactics during the shooting of Claire's Knee. Sometimes we lost whole days, and the crew would become panicky, thinking the shooting was falling behind schedule. But Rohmer was probably only waiting for the perfect moment, either from the point of view of the light or of the actors, and would make up the lost time in a single day’s work.
>Rohmer shoots fast, but he doesn’t shoot all the time. Most directors arrive in the morning, line up a shot (if they didn’t do it the day before), and film perhaps an hour later, shooting constantly up to the very last minute of the workday. Not Rohmer. He may arrive in the morning and do nothing concrete until noon. Though he may seem to be daydreaming, he acts with amazing speed when he decides what he wants. He may film up to ten screen minutes in a day (the average is three, which is more than acceptable), and then dismiss the crew before the scheduled time. His work rhythm is very irregular: sometimes with no warning he will just not turn up, or he may take time off to run (he was jogging long before it became a fad). I admit that I felt confused at first. But I began to get used to these odd tactics during the shooting of Claire's Knee. Sometimes we lost whole days, and the crew would become panicky, thinking the shooting was falling behind schedule. But Rohmer was probably only waiting for the perfect moment, either from the point of view of the light or of the actors, and would make up the lost time in a single day’s work.
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