Paco delgado biography

For Paco Delgado, “Les Misérables” moves like a breathless action movie in the way it combines gritty drama with musical fantasy. That was director Tom Hooper’s cinematic vision for the operatic sing-through. So for the Spanish costume designer (“The Skin I Live In,” “Biutiful”), it’s all about capturing emotional states during this revolutionary epoch. From the Christ-like Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) to the oppressive Javert (Russell Crowe) to the doomed Fantine (Anne Hathaway) to the hopeful Cosette (Amanda Seyfried), he uses color to convey their dramatic arcs, particularly the clash of red and blue. In fact, it’s a movie in which characters ultimately mirror themselves as well as one another.

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