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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Wendy Ide

Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, The Colours of Life review – flat take on a vibrant career

Carlo Di Palma, seen here with Woody Allen, gets a ‘tombstone’ of a documentary.
Carlo Di Palma, seen here with Woody Allen, gets a ‘tombstone’ of a documentary.

Here’s a choice. Either you spend 90 minutes watching people trying to find different ways to say that cinematographer Carlo Di Palma “sculpted with light”. Or, better, you seek out the work that is so temptingly trailed in this documentary, films such as Antonioni’s Red Desert and Blow-Up or Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters. This film by Fariborz Kamkari is well intentioned and reverential but it feels like a tombstone for the oeuvre of a man whose photography was vividly, mercurially alive.

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