Edgar Wright narrates a dreamy sequence from his film featuring Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy.
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A song from Cilla Black and some flashing lights from a French bistro summon a little dreamy 1960s magic in this scene from “Last Night in Soho,” a thriller by the director Edgar Wright.
Thomasin McKenzie stars as a fashion student with ’60s obsessions who is, as Wright puts it, “supernaturally switched on.”
As she goes to sleep in her new flat, she has a dream that takes her back to her favorite decade, across a busy street in London and into a lavish nightclub. In this video, Wright explains the more-complicated-than-it-looks nature of timing flashing lights to the beats of a song, as well as other practical effects he used to create a mirror-image moment (actually building a “mirror” set and using twin actors on either side of it).
Read the “Last Night in Soho” review.
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