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Film The Virgin Suicides (1999)

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Cinematographer Ed Lachman doesn't have the cachet of Christopher Doyle or Vittorio Storaro, but he cuts an impressive figure nonetheless. Lachman's strength is his versatility: he's capture Fellini's in-your-face aesthetic (in I'm Not There) and a yuppie's empty excess (Less Than Zero) with equal polish. The BAMcinématek series on the cameraman continues with Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, in which Lachman adjusts his aperture to frame the Lisbon sisters' demise. The subject may be morbid, but Lachman's Polaroid-perfect shots of the Lisbons' teenaged idyll — along with Air's plaintive score — evoke a faded romanticism.

– Jason Jude Chan