DDW Challenge; at the movies. Citizen Cane

I thought I would try a revolutionary take on this challenge.

Le Citizen came from a gallery in Uzes (Southern France) when we were there on holiday last Summer.

Le Cane was a souvenir from La Bambouseraie de Prafrance, a botanical garden in Southern France dedicated to all things Bamboo. Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement. It’s one of Europe’s oldest bamboo plantations dating from the 1860s. The plants are spectacular. You think the bamboo in your garden is big. Some of the specimens on display here are trees, 30-40m high.

The Cockade was supplied by Anniemay, a leftover from her days manning the barricades.

Uzes is famous for three things; (i) being medieval and beautiful, (ii) its cathedral with 14thC Fenestrelle Tower (believed to be the only one outside of Tuscany) and (iii) the Haribo Sweet Factory and Museum. This is well worth a visit because you can go straight to the sweet shop without having to trudge round the museum first.

The film for which this challenge is named was revolutionary in many ways; perhaps best known and of interest to any one who takes a photograph, was the use of ‘deep focus’ - what we would call ‘maximum depth of field’. Everything from foreground to background is in sharp focus, a technique not tried until this film.

I saw Citizen Kane a long time ago; I’m ready to look at it properly now.