Cinematography is one of the most incredible talents, and obviously one of the most important aspect of the filming process. The ability to use a camera to emphasize important elements of a scene, or to drive the plot, or to make a scene stand out and more memorable is not only highly artistic, but invaluable to the experience for the makers and the viewers. The Girl with the Pearl Earring has some of the most unforgettable cinematography I have ever seen. The scenes themselves become paintings! The use of color and light by the cinematographer is breathtaking and shows an artistic ability that is more than comparable to proposed talent of the main character in the film himself.
Each frame, in this film, becomes an empty patch of canvas, which is then magically transformed into obscenely beautiful images. All of the scenes are gorgeous, but most specifically, the scene where Griet and Pieter are walking through the trees with the sunlight breaking in sideways; this scene looks more like a painting than film. The oversaturated colors that are almost muted by the light, if that is a thing, resemble the brush strokes of a painted 1600s scenery. It is like an impression of reality, rather than reality itself, which is actually really characteristically unique in comparison with most films.
Its a movie that I want to watch again… several times at least. The hardest thing to get over while watching it, is that it is actually moving. While some might criticize this film for being too slow, I am almost tempted to criticize for the opposite; I would go as far as to say that if the film could just stop sometimes so that I could drink it in, I would be perfectly content with that. This movie was something that requires the viewer to admire and ponder it like a piece of art and not just a moving picture.
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