![]() ![]() ![]() I feel that the life that I live in-we talked about the world that we live seems to be full of increasing gray area and the culture that I live in seems to be entrenched in black or white positions and I think its urgent to talk about that because it’s going to kill us all. PB: When I was writing the film, it wasn’t about homelessness, it was about judgement. What pointers did you gain from your collaboration with the NYC Coalition for the Homeless? So I was close and tight again which was for me a compromise because we designed this thing that came out a little and became quite operatic at the end with the language that became more operatic so it ended up that we had to make a slight compromise. And the idea was that by act 3, we would be shooting really wide and then we lost our hiatus and we were going to film it with a hiatus but our schedule changed and the consequence was that we had to shoot the winter in summer, in 90 degree heat with no snow and I’d find somebody who could find a tree in new York without a fucking tree in it. And of course the note was in focus but I just wasn’t in focus for him socially so we tied to design a really small horizon in the beginning of the movie where people were out of focus unless they were Anthony or Jennifer or Jennifer pan handling the guy for the cigarette- the cigarette in his hand are in focus and then we brought them out when they’re in the Goldilocks act, when they’re in the apartment and their horizons start to broaden out. And the design I had just walked into a deli and I was passing a homeless person and I put my hand into my pocket and pulled out a note and it was a $20 bill so I gave him the 20 dollar note and he was blessing me and Jesus and it’s his luckiest day and I walk in, get a carton of milk, walk out and he puts his hand out and I’m like, “Hey hey, what the hell are you doing? I just gave you the twenty.” And he was like, “That was you?” And I thought, “Yeah that was me. And Paula showed up and it became what we could do and that was just wonderful. For me, pre-production was the worst part of this, it was the only aspect that I had no experience in and it seemed to consist of people just telling what I couldn’t do, what we couldn’t afford to do. Can you talk about your collaboration with her? You worked with Paula Huidobro who is noted as being one of the best in her business of cinematography. You can catch the film out in select theaters and read the interview we had with the cast and director below. Starring Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie, the film depicts the lives of the drug addict Hannah (Connelly) living on the streets and running into Tahir (Mackie), an illegal immigrant who escaped terrors from Boko Haram and tries to make ends meet. In Paul Bettany’s screenwriting and directorial debut, Shelter follows the lives of two homeless people who find love in each other despite all of the obstacles that stand in their way. ![]()
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