L’image atmosphérique : adaptation cinématographique d’une technique picturale

Abstract

With the sfumato technique, Leonardo applied to his paintings a veil of smoke, giving the contours of landscapes, objects and characters,a blurred and indistinct appearance. Nowaday, filmmakers such as Nuri Bilge Ceylan or Theo Angelopoulos bring back to life the same poetics of "natural blur", incompletion and incompleteness.