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Superimposition 2: Dissolve edits in Maurice (James Ivory, 1987): Maurice’s dream(s)

‘He wonders whether the gentleman wished to bathe between innings, sir. He has just bailed out the boat.’

Self-reblogging in honour of Maurice’s Director of Photography Pierre Lhomme, who died on 4 Jul 2019, aged 89

Pierre Lhomme, Legendary French Cinematographer, Dies at 89, Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jul 2019

Superimposition 1: Dissolve edits in Maurice (James Ivory, 1987): Risley’s arrest

Self-reblogging in honour of Maurice’s superb Director of Photography Pierre Lhomme, who died on 4 Jul 2019, aged 89

Pierre Lhomme, Legendary French Cinematographer, Dies at 89, Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jul 2019

During his long career, cinematographer Lhomme was responsible for the look of more than 80 films. Maurice was the second of his five credits for Merchant Ivory, following Quartet (James Ivory, 1981), adapted from Jean Rhys’s autobiographical novel and starring the young Isabelle Adjani. His wider credits included Chris Marker’s Le joli mai (1963), Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (1969), Bruno Nuytten’s biopic of the artist Camille Claudel (1988), again starring Adjani, and Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Cyrano de Bergerac (1990).

Superimposition 2: Dissolve edits in Maurice (James Ivory, 1987): Maurice’s dream(s)

‘He wonders whether the gentleman wished to bathe between innings, sir. He has just bailed out the boat.’

It's Monday morning, so Maurice is me and the girl is the job I used to love and is now killing me slowly but surely, and that coffin-boat could well be the exact metaphor for my life right now... (I'm usually not this dramatic but it's the last week of this school term and it's raining paperwork)

Superimposition 1: Dissolve edits in Maurice (James Ivory, 1987): Risley’s arrest