The Sunday Telegraph London, January 15th, 2006
The opening scenes of Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha (12A) are washed in a grey-blue light, the same light that is to be found in Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and the city shots of Marshall's own Chicago. Back in the 1970s, Oscar hopefuls had a yellowy glow to their film-stock; now the colour of Oscar is mineral blue. Serendipitously, this is the exact same shade as the unusual eyes of our hero, young Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo), a nine-year-old Japanese girl from a poor fishing village. Chiyo's mother is dying. In Japan, all is tumult: it is raining, the sea is crashing, the camera wobbles. ...
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