Lurking behind the stark, high-contrast black and white photography ... are the same sinister motivations that have driven all the characters in this master filmmaker's work.

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In winter, when the continent is locked in darkness and freezing conditions, staff learn skills such as woodwork and black and white photography to help while away their free time.

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All have been individually decorated, so it is impossible to generalize, but ours came with cream walls, bleached wooden floors covered by sisal matting, wicker screens, a four-poster king-size bed, wingback armchairs, a large writing desk, dramatic framed black-and-white photography and decoration that ranged from traditional African sculptures to a tower of Louis Vuitton steamer trunks.

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The pace is deliberate and the style is austere, with bleached color photography (by Tom Stern) that could almost pass for black-and-white, yet the feeling is intimate.

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At that point his apartment at Fifth Ave. and 77th St. was decorated with photography and heavy European antiques, like an ornate Italian Baroque console with exaggerated, curvy legs and white veneer.

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