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Robby Müller: Living the Light

  • 20182018
  • 1h 26m
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Robby Müller: Living the Light (2018)
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DoP Robby Müller has inspired generations with his ground-breaking camerawork. Director Claire Pijman had access to his personal archive to create an extraordinary film essay that intertwine... Read allDoP Robby Müller has inspired generations with his ground-breaking camerawork. Director Claire Pijman had access to his personal archive to create an extraordinary film essay that intertwines archival material with excerpts of his oeuvre.DoP Robby Müller has inspired generations with his ground-breaking camerawork. Director Claire Pijman had access to his personal archive to create an extraordinary film essay that intertwines archival material with excerpts of his oeuvre.
IMDb RATING
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252
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POPULARITY
106,589
30,119
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    • Director
      • Claire Pijman
    • Stars
      • Robby Müller
      • Wim Wenders
      • Jim Jarmusch
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      • Claire Pijman
    • Stars
      • Robby Müller
      • Wim Wenders
      • Jim Jarmusch
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    • 2User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations

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    Robby Müller
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    Wim Wenders
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    Jim Jarmusch
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    Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier
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    Agnès Godard
    Agnès Godard
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    Jay Rabinowitz
    Jay Rabinowitz
    • Self
    Frieder Hocheim
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    Steve McQueen
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    Theo Bierkens
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    9/10
    Dutch Master of Light
    The late Robby Muller was a brilliant cinematographer of many classic movies directed by Jim Jarmush, Wim Wenders and Lars von Trier, among others. This documentary about Robby Muller life's work is impressive, touching and playful, showing family snapshots and many other personal camera recordings, in which Robby Muller is playing with different shades of light.

    Catching reflections of light on film, was Robby Muller's intention, so we learn as viewers watching interviews. In my perception (and of many others) Robby Muller's work is breathtakingly beautiful to watch. Life long colleague and friend, director Wim Wenders (Paris,Texas), praised Robby Muller's gift to play with the reflections of light in such a way that he referred to him as a "Dutch Master of Light", which is a reference to the great 17th century Dutch painters, who excelled in portraying landscapes with gorgeous dynamic contrasts.

    What was most striking for me about this documentary was the fact that director Wim Wenders and Robby Muller knew how their pictures should look like, way before they started shooting, by simply looking at photographs and talking about the mood of the picture beforehand. Many scenes in Robby Muller's films do have the same stunning quality and intensity as a still picture or a painting and that is probably due to the affection Robby Muller had with making art photographs.

    For many years to come I will cherish and rewatch the many great classics Robby Muller has made during his lifetime. What an incredibly, marvellous photographer!
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    • Release date
      • September 20, 2018 (Netherlands)
    • Countries of origin
      • Netherlands
      • Germany
    • Official site
      • 2. Official site (Netherlands)
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • Dutch
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Living the Light - Robby Müller
    • Production companies
      • Moondocs
      • Chromosom Film Gmbh
      • Stichting Docu Shot
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      • €332,367 (estimated)
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      1 hour 26 minutes
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