Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

2013

Director: Harald Zwart

screenplay: Jessica Postigo Paquette / based on the novel by Cassandra Clare

Cast
Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Zegers

Cinematography: Geir Hartly Andreassen
Production Design: François Séguin
Art Direction: Anthony A. Ianni
Set Decoration: Patricia Larman
Costume Design: Gersha Phillips

DESSINS / DRAWINGS

IMAGES DE PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION IMAGES

official synopsis:
CLARY FRAY (Lily Collins) is an ordinary Brooklyn teenager until the night she meets the mysteriously tattooed JACE, who turns out to be a half-angel warrior known as a Shadowhunter. When Clary finds out her mother JOCELYN has been abducted, she desperately hopes Jace will be able to help. After a whirling golden portal transports her across time and space in a heartbeat, Clary realizes she too has the powers of the Shadowhunters. But can she harness them in time to save her mother?

Clary, Jace and their fellow Shadowhunters endure one breathtaking battle after another against vampire, warlocks and demons—only to discover Jocelyn hid a terrible secret from the fiercest warrior of all: VALENTINE. Cast out from the world of Shadowhunters, Valentine abducted Jocelyn believing she had a powerful tool known as the Mortal Cup. Using her newfound gifts, Clary finds the Cup, only to be brutally betrayed and forced to relinquish it.

Still reeling from this setback and racing to save Jocelyn before it’s too late, Clary finds herself caught in a battle between forces she barely understands. Based on the best-selling series by Cassandra Clare, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES is a magnificent urban fantasy rich in detail and suspense, about a girl’s journey to the darkest corners of the underworld to save those she loves.

“The production design by Francois Seguin is beautifully captured with some imaginative visual effects, in luscious anamorphic widescreen by the director of photography, Geir Hartly Andreassen. The computer generated images seamlessly merge with the film, especially during a sequence set in the vampire-filled room in the climax.”

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > LIFE & STYLE > FILM, By IANS Published: September 5, 2013