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“Ochi” oozes wonder shot after shot, in part from the eye-popping environments produced through a combination of Evan Prosofsky’s lambent cinematography and the use of matte paintings.
Shot largely in Romania, in the rural areas of Transylvania, cinematographer Evan Prosofsky’s camera work expertly blends with all of Saxon’s filmmaking tools to create a visual palette caught somewhere between reality and the otherworldly.
The lovely technicals only heighten the film, with cinematographer Evan Prosofsky capturing the Hungarian countryside with a sprawling and nostalgic sense of magic, transforming it into an unfamiliar and curious place that may have only previously existed in imaginations.
Bolstered by environmental themes, a visually stunning palette, on-location cinematography that makes the film look far more expensive than its actual cost, and another scene-stealing turn by Willem Dafoe as a half-crazed creature hunter, The Legend of Ochi suggests great, possibly greater things to come for Saxon as a filmmaker.
Evan Prosofsky’s cinematography, with its emphasis on eerie fog and simmering sunlight, gives the Romanian locales the feel of a mystical realm cut off from the real world.