Article: Going with the grain for a rough-hewn feel.(ERIC GAUTIER: Into the Wild)(Brief article)

D.p. Eric Gautier may be a Cannes mainstay thanks to his collaborations with Gallic helmers like Olivier Assayas, but it's his work on Sean Penn's very American "Into the Wild" that finds him on award season shortlists, Gautier, one of Variety's 10 Cinematographers to Watch, says "Wild's" retro feel was borne directly out of his and Penn's mutual love of '70s American cinema.

Gautier rattles off a list of that era's ace lensers--Haskell Wexler, Conrad Hall, Vilmos Zsigmond and Gordon Willis among them--whose landmark films were used as a prism through which he and Penn could "create a common language." Says Gautier: "Words like contrast, warm look, texture, deep ...

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