“Emilia Pérez”–Shooting the Final Gunfight
“At the end of the film, Rita plans an operation to free Emilia. The three-car convoy rides in the moonlight, then splits. Rita’s car goes to the meeting point — an abandoned restaurant — with the ransom, and the group of fighters hides behind a hill with a good view of the action.
There is a crosscutting with the inside of the restaurant: Emilia sings the truth to Jessi, mManitas’ “widow,” played by Selena Gomez, the situation starts to degenerate, and a gunfight begins. It ends in a car chase,” Guillaume said.
“One of the difficulties for the cinematographer was to bring continuity to this long scene, which would be shot using various techniques: blue screens for the close-ups on the vehicles, real night exterior in a quarry around Paris for the restaurant exteriors, full 3D for the wide shots of the convoy, and a studio set for the restaurant’s interior. As opposed to the beginning of the film, where the night is mainly lit with practicals, here the moonlight quickly becomes the only source that motivates the lighting.
