I was absolutely smitten with the cinematography. It's ethereal in an eerie kind of way. The cliffs start to look like dogmatic faces, and paired with the unnerving score, the effect feels like something divine/all-seeing is looking down on the girls.
I watched Picnic for the first time this year--yes to "the painterly lensing"--and it really stuck with me.
I was absolutely smitten with the cinematography. It's ethereal in an eerie kind of way. The cliffs start to look like dogmatic faces, and paired with the unnerving score, the effect feels like something divine/all-seeing is looking down on the girls.