Director Alexander Payne and cinematographer Eigil Bryld needed a lot of snow, and actors up for the task, to tell the quiet, melancholy story of three people spending Christmas at a New England boarding school.
Set over Christmas break at Barton Academy, a fictional New England boarding school, The Holdovers stars Paul Giamatti—reuniting with Payne for the first time since Sideways—as the pretentious, deeply unlikable Paul Hunham, a classics teacher who is stuck chaperoning the students with nowhere to go over the holidays .
We were struggling a little bit this day because we were striving for simplicity, and obviously simplicity is not always simple to achieve. It was really about making sure the camera was in the right place. The style of moviemaking should never be that you just do a bunch of angles and then hope one of them works. Because we’re photographing all three of them, but at the same time it’s also three individual portraits.
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