Reflexions Itinerant: December 2003 Archives

delux embourg

By Stairs on December 14, 2003 1:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBacks (0)

Luxembourg made for a really lovely trip, last weekend; I didn't post any of my pictures of the city because I'm an unhelpful philistine - what are you doing here anyway? - but having come home to London from Cambridge, I did get to see a virtual pile of digipix from my mother's camera, including some of those she took on the filmset for the upcoming adaptation of Shakespeare's Verchant of Menice.

An interior in the works; the attention to detail was phenomenal, and particularly impressive was the paintwork - the marble floor, for one, which was being painted into existence as we looked on. The people to the rear seemed important, the dummy to the left looks freakishly like me.

Why use the real thing when you can build it at cost? Film folk really do create entire Universes, or at least entire city districts, on call. To their credit, this set already existed, so its use probably saved some money.