A Bigger Splash - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "A Bigger Splash"
A Bigger Splash (2015)
Timing:
2:5 (125 min)
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Michael Costigan
Producer
Executive Producer
Olivier Courson
Executive Producer
Marco Morabito
Executive Producer
Casting
Avy Kaufman
Casting
Stella Savino
Casting
Editor
Walter Fasano
Editor
Special Effects Supervisor
Jason Troughton
Special Effects Supervisor
Art Direction
Roberta Federico
Art Direction
Supervising Art Director
Zsuzsa Kismarty-Lechner
Supervising Art Director
Costume Design
Giulia Piersanti
Costume Design
Production Design
Maria Djurkovic
Production Design
Second Unit Director
Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
Second Unit Director
Set Decoration
Tatiana Macdonald
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Paola Cristofaroni
Makeup Artist
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jean-Pierre Laforce
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Unit Production Manager
Francesco Ruggeri
Unit Production Manager
Nuno Martins
Unit Production Manager
Co-Producer
Sonya Lunsford
Co-Producer
Stephen E. Hagen
Co-Producer
Associate Producer
Andrea Zoso
Associate Producer
Second Assistant Director
Carlo Paramidani
Second Assistant Director
Director of Photography
Steadicam Operator
Luca Dell'Oro
Steadicam Operator
Sound Effects Editor
Daniele Quadroli
Sound Effects Editor
David Quadroli
Sound Effects Editor
Paolo Amici
Sound Effects Editor
Fabrizio Quadroli
Sound Effects Editor
Property Master
Mirko Donati
Property Master
Visual Effects Supervisor
Luca Saviotti
Visual Effects Supervisor
Rodolfo Migliari
Visual Effects Supervisor
Script Supervisor
Susanna Lenton
Script Supervisor
Electrician
Salvatore Gabriele
Electrician
Alessandro Magno
Electrician
Daniele Marcello Rizzoni
Electrician
Antonino Belvisi
Electrician
Matteo Attolini
Electrician
Giambattista Greco
Electrician
Fabio Proserpio
Electrician
Supervising Dialogue Editor
Davide Favargiotti
Supervising Dialogue Editor
Hairstylist
Luca Pompozzi
Hairstylist
Still Photographer
First Assistant Director
Evelina De Gaudenzi
First Assistant Director
Thanks
Boom Operator
Ivano Mataldi
Boom Operator
Yannick Blanquet
Boom Operator
Graphic Designer
Silvia Fontana
Graphic Designer
Screenplay
Novel
Alain Page
Novel
Set Designer
Briseide Siciliano
Set Designer
First Assistant Editor
Silvia De Rose
First Assistant Editor
Foley Artist
Italo Cameracanna
Foley Artist
Riccardo Cameracanna
Foley Artist
Paolo Amici
Foley Artist
Fabrizio Quadroli
Foley Artist
David Quadroli
Foley Artist
Daniele Quadroli
Foley Artist
Art Department Coordinator
Francesca Birri
Art Department Coordinator
First Assistant "B" Camera
Massimiliano Kuveiller
First Assistant "B" Camera
First Assistant "A" Camera
Fabio Ciotto
First Assistant "A" Camera
Gaia Ferme
First Assistant "A" Camera
Key Grip
Massimo Barbona
Key Grip
Grip
Llewellyn Harrison
Grip
Emilio Quinzi
Grip
Alessio Federico Fugolo
Grip
Dolly Grip
Roberto Barbona
Dolly Grip
Leadman
Sandro Bettin
Leadman
Set Production Assistant
Emanuele Garsia
Set Production Assistant
Ennio Koshi
Set Production Assistant
Second Second Assistant Director
Mihaela Mihai
Second Second Assistant Director
Seamstress
Saskia Irrgang
Seamstress
Ornella Cassinari
Seamstress
Carpenter
Claudio Cecilia
Carpenter
Claudio Lattanzi
Carpenter
Magdy Shenouda
Carpenter
Giovanni Battista Russo
Carpenter
Francesco Staltari
Carpenter
Assistant Set Decoration
Sandro Piccarozzi
Assistant Set Decoration
Painter
Giuseppe Cafagna
Painter
Sandro Ercolini
Painter
Story
Alain Page
Story
Music Supervisor
Robin Urdang
Music Supervisor
Casting Assistant
Margherita Casano
Casting Assistant
Simonetta Giordano
Casting Assistant
Special Effects Technician
Howard Moore
Special Effects Technician
Nathanial Harrison
Special Effects Technician
Hair Designer
Manolo García
Hair Designer
Makeup Designer
Fernanda Lucía Pérez
Makeup Designer
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Lucia Patullo
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Production Accountant
Massimo Aversano
Production Accountant
Gaffer
Francesco Galli
Gaffer
Production Sound Mixer
Yves-Marie Omnes
Production Sound Mixer
Additional Still Photographer
Jack English
Additional Still Photographer
Colorist
Rosario Balistreri
Colorist
Post Production Supervisor
Monica Verzolini
Post Production Supervisor
Production Coordinator
Margaret Thompson
Production Coordinator
Best Boy Electric
Simone Lucchetti
Best Boy Electric
Camera Loader
Davide Carbonari
Camera Loader
Assistant Production Coordinator
Carolina Rubino
Assistant Production Coordinator
Yu Sung Cho
Assistant Production Coordinator
Laura Chiara Cavaletto
Assistant Production Coordinator
Stefania Monetti
Assistant Production Coordinator
Second Assistant Accountant
Francesca Scutti
Second Assistant Accountant
Wardrobe Supervisor
Fulvia Roverselli
Wardrobe Supervisor
Second Assistant Camera
Niccolò Brindasso
Second Assistant Camera
Choreographer
Ann Yee
Choreographer
Publicist
Flavia Schiavi
Publicist
Charles McDonald
Publicist
Matthew Sanders
Publicist
Olivia Alighiero
Publicist
Unit Manager
Piernicola Pinnola
Unit Manager
Antongiulio Dell'Orco
Unit Manager
Lucia Guidano
Unit Manager
Construction Manager
Bernadino Nardoni
Construction Manager
Title Designer
Pierre Marie
Title Designer
Swing
Massimo Eleonori
Swing
Adonay Marin Conde
Swing
First Assistant Accountant
Cristina Catapano
First Assistant Accountant
Adaptation
Dialogue
Music Consultant
Gerry Gershman
Music Consultant
Camera Car
Diego Aresu
Camera Car
Original Film Writer
Alain Page
Original Film Writer
Assistant Dialogue Editor
Emanuela Di Giunta
Assistant Dialogue Editor
Vocal Coach
David Combes
Vocal Coach
Silvio Pozzoli
Vocal Coach
Anne Skates
Vocal Coach
Senior Colorist
Angelo Francavilla
Senior Colorist
What's left behind the scenes
- One day during filming, an underwater camera used for some scenes broke down, and the actors were forced to wait a week on the island for a replacement. Matthias Schoenaerts felt uncomfortable, literally trapped, Tilda Swinton was calm and later described this state as a "protracted family vacation," and Ralph Fiennes, who really liked the houses built into the cliffs where the actors were housed, didn't want to leave. During filming, the actors lived in houses built directly into the cliffs of Pantelleria Island (Italy) in the Strait of Sicily.
- Director Luca Guadagnino later admitted that he had never felt so comfortable on a film set as he did while working on "The Great Beauty."
- Tilda Swinton described her character Marianne Lane as a "mix" of David Bowie, Chrissie Hynde and P.J. Harvey.
- This was Matthias Schoenaerts' first role in his acting career where he didn't play a Belgian in a Belgian or French film. Before filming 'The Big Splash,' he last played a Belgian in Jacques Audiard's drama 'Rust and Bone' (2012), after which he portrayed Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Frenchmen and Danes.
- Kate Blanchett was originally considered for the role of Marianne, but she was busy filming in New York at the time of shooting. The role went to Tilda Swinton.
- Margot Robbie left the project due to filming 'The Legend of Tarzan' directed by David Yates, leaving director Luca Guadagnino without an actress for the role of Penelope shortly before the planned start of filming. He went through numerous candidates until his friend Brian Soddstrom (Tilda Swinton and Sam Taylor-Johnson's agent) once mentioned Dakota Johnson. Guadagnino spoke with Sam Taylor-Johnson, who had directed Dakota in 'Fifty Shades of Grey' (2015), and soon included Dakota Johnson in the cast.
- Tilda Swinton posed as Marianne Lane for the cover of 'AnOther Magazine' (Autumn/Winter 2015 issue). The magazine published an interview with Marianne about the film, co-written by Tilda Swinton, Glenn O'Brien, Luca Guadagnino and Dave Kiganich.
- During the 2015 London Film Festival, Luca Guadagnino confessed that his favorite scene from the film 'A Bigger Splash' did not make it into the final cut. "We shot it in the Tate Gallery in London, right in front of a painting by David Hockney," the director said. "The scene turned out magnificent, but it had to be cut." The scene featured only Dakota Johnson, who was looking at Hockney’s painting.
- Director Luca Guadagnino is unsure whether his film 'A Bigger Splash' (2015) should be called a remake of Jacques Deray's 1969 detective film 'La Piscine' (The Swimming Pool). In an interview with the Italian version of 'Vogue' magazine, he stated that he had never been a fan of Deray’s film and only borrowed the idea of two couples meeting during the summer by the pool. In an interview with 'The Guardian' newspaper, Guadagnino later explained that the film’s concept was inspired by David Hockney’s painting 'A Bigger Splash' (1967). "I once wondered what was beyond the moment in time that Hockney captured on canvas," the director said. Guadagnino took the title from the artist, arranged for a plot to be written where all the action takes place near a pool, and proceeded intuitively. He wanted to focus on the behavior of his characters, which is rare in modern cinema.
- Filming took 9 weeks (6 shooting days per week).
- A scene depicting the relationship between Marianne Lane and her mother was shot but did not make it into the final version of the film. In the original script, the heroine’s mother was portrayed as a screen star on the level of Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982). In one of the scenes from this episode, where Marianne is at a celebration in the church of San Gaetano in Florence, she is approached by a stranger who mistakes her for her mother. This scene was shot to show how Marianne is mistaken for her famous mother, and how, for a moment, she finds herself in someone else’s shoes. The episode was cut because it was considered distracting to the audience, but until the very end of the film’s production, its creators could not shake the thought that Marianne’s mother was a celebrity of a different kind, a screen star who learned to live with frenzied fame, became a mother, and remained an ordinary person even in the eyes of her adoring public.
- Ralph Fiennes and Matthias Schoenaerts had previously played Nazis – Fiennes in 'Schindler's List' (Steven Spielberg, 1993) and Schoenaerts in 'Suite Française' (Saul Dibb, 2014).
- Matthias Schoenaerts began filming "Bodyguard" (Alice Winocour, 2015) just three weeks after completing "The Big Splash".
- The tenth joint project of director Luca Guadagnino and editor Walter Fazano. Previously, they collaborated on "Qui" (1997), "Protagonists" (1999), "L'uomo risacca" (2000), "Mundo civilizado" (2003), "Melissa: Intimate Diary" (2005), "I Am Love" (2009), "Chronology" (2010), "Destinee" (2012), and "Bertolucci on Bertolucci" (2013).
- Luca Guadagnino wanted to work with a screenwriter from the United States and therefore asked David Kajganich to write a screenplay for "Studio Canal".
- In "The Big Splash," Matthias Schoenaerts plays a photographer and documentary filmmaker. In reality, Schoenaerts directed a documentary film "Franky" about his school friend who lost a leg.
- Actor Ralph Fiennes, who plays the role of a music producer in the film, has a brother named Magnus who is a music producer. Fiennes admitted in an interview with the website "Collider" that, while preparing for the role, he bombarded his brother with questions about the profession.
- Before "The Deep" (Big Splash), Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes starred together in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (Wes Anderson, 2014), based on stories by Stefan Zweig, and in the comedy "Hail, Caesar!" (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2016).
- This is the fourth film featuring Tilda Swinton and cinematographer Yorick Le Saux working together. They previously collaborated on "Julia" (Eric Zonca, 2008), "I Am Love" (Luca Guadagnino, 2009), and "Only Lovers Left Alive" (Jim Jarmusch, 2013).
- Cinematographer Yorick Le Saux also worked on "Swimming Pool" (François Ozon, 2002), a new interpretation of Jacques Deray’s film of the same name starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider from 1969.
- Ralph Fiennes is a fan of The Rolling Stones, but he hadn't attended any of their concerts until the summer of 2014, when he was filming "The Deep" (Big Splash).
- Ralph Fiennes sought the help of Anne Yeat, a choreographer and movement director, in staging his dance scene.
- Before starting on the initial script draft, Dave Kaganish read all the books he could find about the "Rolling Stones" and watched all the documentaries made about the musicians. Kaganish felt he needed to find a niche for Marianne Lane and Harry Hawks within the rock music world of the 1990s. For example, he tried to determine which "Rolling Stones" albums Harry Hawks might have produced. Once he had decided on this, Kaganish gathered everything ever written or told by people who were actually in the studio during the recording of those albums. During the pre-production period, he received a very interesting email. It was a letter from Mick Jagger, sent to the film's music supervisor. It turned out that the members of the "Rolling Stones" had read the script for the future film. The filmmakers had asked them for permission to use certain songs, and the musicians did not object. In the letter, Jagger asked where Kaganish had learned the story of the recording of "Moon Is Up" from the album "Voodoo Lounge" (1994) and, in particular, that Charlie Watts had played not on the drums, but on a trash can in the studio. Kaganish had read this in passing in one of Stanley Booth's books about the "Rolling Stones". He had decided to mention this incident in the film and was now worried that Jagger would express his disapproval. Jagger did not express any such disapproval. He simply wrote to correct a nuance in which the filmmakers had made a mistake. Kaganish later said that he was only glad to correct the inaccuracy, because who, if not Jagger, would know what he was talking about when it came to the "Rolling Stones"! In addition, Kaganish listened to almost exclusively the "Rolling Stones" for a year.
- Penelope is reading "The Skin" by Italian writer Curzio Malaparte. The novel, written in 1949, was included by the Catholic Church in the "Index of Forbidden Books".
- In the scene where Paul and Harry are filming a documentary, director Luca Guadagnino himself sits next to Matthias Schoenaerts' character.
- Luca Guadagnino cannot swim. This is his second film where death comes to one of the characters in a swimming pool. It first happened in "I Am Love" (2009), where one of the characters close to Tilda Swinton also died.
- Marianne Lane's concert, performed by Tilda Swinton, was filmed at the San Siro Stadium (also known as the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium) in Milan, which resembles Madison Square Garden in New York. The filming took place during a performance by Italian rapper Jovanotti (real name Lorenzo Cherubini), which was attended by 70,000 people. One of Tilda Swinton's acquaintances is a friend of Jovanotti. Through him, the filmmakers asked the performer to give up the stage for 15 minutes, and the audience was asked to shout Marianne Lane's name during that time.
- Director Luca Guadagnino is unsure whether the film 'A Bigger Splash' (2015) should be called a remake of Jacques Deray's 1969 detective film 'La Piscine' (The Swimming Pool). In an interview with the Italian version of 'Vogue' magazine, he stated that he was never a fan of Deray's film and only borrowed the idea of two couples meeting during the summer by the pool. In an interview with 'The Guardian' newspaper, Guadagnino later explained that the film's concept was inspired by David Hockney's painting 'A Bigger Splash' (1967). “I once wondered what was beyond the moment in time that Hockney captured on canvas,” the director said. Guadagnino took the title from the artist, organized the writing of a plot where all the action takes place near the pool, and proceeded intuitively. He wanted to focus on the behavior of his characters, which is rare in modern cinema.
- The fourth joint project of director Luca Guadagnino and cinematographer Yorick Le Saux. They had previously worked together on 'I Am Love' (2009) and the short films 'Destinée' (2012) and 'One Plus One' (2012).
- Luca Guadagnino's first film in English since the release of the thriller 'Protagonists' (1999).
- Luca Guadagnino's first full-length feature film in 6 years, following the release of 'I Am Love' (2009).
- Members of The Rolling Stones helped with the screenplay. Initially, the filmmakers arranged a screening of 'I Am Love' (2009) for Mick Jagger and the other musicians to introduce them to Luca Guadagnino's work. The frontman liked the film. Ralph Fiennes and Jagger even became friends. After that, Fiennes and Guadagnino went to a Rolling Stones concert in Rome to personally present the future film to the musicians. As producer Michael Costigan later recounted, everything turned out even better than they had hoped. Jagger and guitarist Ronnie Wood were thrilled with the future film and specifically with the character that Fiennes was to play. They suggested some things to the actor regarding the dialogue about studio sessions that his character would discuss in front of the camera. Thus, while playing a Rolling Stones record, Harry would reflect or make comments specifically about the things that were actually discussed in the studio during the recording process.
- Matthias Schoenaerts began filming "Bodyguard" (Alice Winocour, 2015) just three weeks after finishing work on "The Big Splash".
- This is the tenth joint project by director Luca Guadagnino and editor Walter Fasano. Previously, they collaborated on "Qui" (1997), "Protagonists" (1999), "L'uomo risacca" (2000), "Mundo civilizado" (2003), "Melissa P." (2005), "I Am Love" (2009), "Chronology" (2010), "Destinee" (2012) and "Bertolucci on Bertolucci" (2013).
- Luca Guadagnino wanted to work with a screenwriter from the United States, and therefore asked David Kajganich to write a screenplay for "Studio Canal".
- In "The Big Splash", Matthias Schoenaerts plays a photographer and documentary filmmaker. In reality, Schoenaerts directed a documentary called "Franky" about his school friend who lost a leg.
- Actor Ralph Fiennes, who plays the role of a music producer in the film, has a brother named Magnus who is also a music producer. Fiennes admitted in an interview with the website "Collider" that he bombarded his brother with questions about the profession while preparing for the role.
- The fourth film by cinematographer Yorick Le Saux featuring Tilda Swinton. They previously collaborated on “Julia” (Eric Zonca, 2008), “I Am Love” (Luca Guadagnino, 2009), and “Only Lovers Left Alive” (Jim Jarmusch, 2013).
- Cinematographer Yorick Le Saux also worked on “Swimming Pool” (François Ozon, 2002), a new interpretation of Jacques Deray’s film of the same name starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider from 1969.
- Ralph Fiennes likes The Rolling Stones, but he hadn't attended any of their concerts until the summer of 2014, when he was filming “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
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