Director Jeff Rutherford on His Feature Debut, Locarno Player ’A Perfect Day for Cairbou’
09.08.2022 - 21:19
/ variety.com
Locarno Film Festival, the film portraits an extended encounter between Herman (Jeb Berrier) and his son, Nate (Charlie Plummer). They grapple with their relationship against a vast landscape as they spend the day meandering across great meadows, trudging through a graveyard – navigating the intimate geographies of their own grief.
Sharing the process of crafting the story, Rutherford comments: “I had this impulse about this father and son being in the middle of nowhere and it taking place in one day.”The black and white film, written with Rutherford’s frequent collaborators, Plummer and Berrier, in mind, is textured with dream-like nostalgia. Alfonso Herrera Salcedo, the cinematographer, frees the characters to wander across the screen, sometimes following them slowly in tracking shots as they get devoured by their surroundings.
He captures the immense landscape against which the story unfolds in a range of extreme wide shots. And yet there is a tension between this alluring expanse of landscape and the compact 4:3 aspect ratio framing it.
The enlarged depth of field seems to lure the audience into the world of Caribou, but it bars them from completely being immersed in it.Rutherford shot the film in Oregon where he also filmed his previous short, Rainbow Pie. Oregon, he says in conversation with Variety, “is inherently striking if photographed a certain way – it has the potential to be otherworldly.” In order to achieve this otherworldliness, he made the decision to drain the landscape of color, explaining, that “for me a film being in black and white inherently shifts the scale towards magic and surrealism, because it’s not the way most people see the world.”As Rutherford breaks from realism, so the present of the
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