What makes a film “beautiful”?

Clayton J. Hester
3 min readFeb 16, 2022

From the beauty of chiaroscuro in classic Hollywood noir, to the gorgeous lingering contemplations of Andrei Tarkovsky, there’s certainly a lot to look at when we talk about the subject of “beauty in film.”

Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” (1941)

Today, we get the triumphant, luminous loveliness of Roger Deakins’ cinematography.

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Clayton J. Hester

Country boy. Explorer of the creative process & life, the arts, storytelling, innovation and history of ideas. Omnia in gloriam Dei facite — claytonjhester.com