I'm not quite sure how I stumbled on this but I am so glad that I did.
'Director
Gustav Deutsch brings 13 Hopper paintings to life in his film,
Shirley - Visions of Reality, the story of a woman whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations lets us observe an era in American history.'
Intense set design and research was conducted to create each vignette of this film to perfect the exact Edward Hopper scene.
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| This is a sketch of Hanna Schimet, the set designer, for a particular scene. |
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The results of painting to film are completely unbelievable.
The film synopsis:
Shirley is a woman in America in the 1930s, ‘40s, ‘50s, and early ‘60s. A
woman who would like to influence the course of history with her
professional and socio-political involvement. A woman who does not
accept the reality of the Depression years, WWII, the McCarthy era, race
conflicts and civil rights campaigns as given but rather as generated
and adjustable. A woman whose work as an actress has familiarised her
with the staging of reality, the questioning and shaping of it; an
actress who doesn’t identify her purpose and future with that of solo
success or stardom but who strives to give social potency to theatre as
part of a collective. A woman who cannot identify with the traditional
role model of a wife yet longs to have a life partner. A woman who does
not compromise in moments of professional crisis and is not afraid to
take on menial jobs to secure her livelihood. A woman who in a moment of
private crisis decides to stick with her partner and puts her own
professional interest on the back burner. A woman who is infuriated by
political repression yet not driven to despair, and who has nothing but
disdain for betrayal.
Shirley, an attractive, charismatic, committed, emancipated woman.
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