SEVEN SISTERS. In the science fiction film directed by Tommy Wirkola, Noomi Rapace embodies septuplets. But how did the filming of “Seven Sisters”, broadcast on M6 this Monday, January 23, 2023, go?
[Mis à jour le 23 janvier 2023 à 20h45] Noomi Rapace embodies no less than seven characters in the film Seven Sisters, directed by Tommy Wirkola, which questions one-child policies in a dystopian future. The Swedish actress embodies on screen septuplets who hide from the eyes of society. In this science fiction film, it can happen that we see the actress seven times in the same room. If this special effects technique, which consists of duplicating the actress in post-production, is commonly used in Hollywood, it is no less complex. To succeed in duplicating Noomi Rapace, she must play with doubles and in turn embody each character present in the same scene: “If we shoot a scene with doubles, I have to show them before what I count do, remembers the Swedish actress with Allociné. I have an overview of the scene. I have to consider it from different angles and it’s a lot of responsibility. “
The director of photography, Jose David Montero, had to think with Tommy Wirkola’s teams of a specific capture system for the film. But several constraints made the shooting more complex: “With the duplication effect and the different overlapping layers, if we change anything, it doesn’t work anymore, and we have to start all over again, which makes us take a huge delay The other difficulty is shooting in an enclosed and restricted space. We want to give the impression that the ceilings have concealed depths, so the space shrinks. We needed three cameras, sometimes four, a green background, a blue background, and lighting. Suffice to say that it was very complicated to manage all that at the same time”. Difficulties that are worth it, since in front of his screen, the spectator sees nothing but fire!
Synopsis – In the future, the Earth is suffocating due to its overpopulation. Nicolette Cayman, who heads the Birth Allowance Office, is responsible for carrying out a one-child policy. Terrence Settman “disobeys” when his wife gives birth to seven babies. He calls them by the seven days of the week. In order not to be unmasked, each of them can only go out on the day that corresponds to their first name. The scheme works for years. But one day, Monday is stopped. The six still free and with very different personalities will try everything to save her and escape Nicolette Cayman’s henchmen…
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