costumes

Held over each August bank holiday, the display of costumes, dancing and music attracts about two million revellers.

The predominantly male performers in Kerala and parts of neighbouring Karnataka embody deities through elaborate costumes, face paint, and trance-like dances, mime and music.

Binoche was excited by Pasolini’s vision for the movie — a kind of stripped-down landscape with actors wrapped in cloth instead of costumes.

He added that it uses lots of energy running studios and filming on location as well as all the materials used for sets, costumes and props.

While traditional production studios employ staff to stay on top of details like continuity in costumes and story lines, independent creators have to get creative.