Look At That

Auckland-born Academy Award-nominated director Andrew Adamson – of Shrek and The Chronicles of Narnia fame – returns to the realm of the fantastic with Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, a film that captures eye-popping acts from seven of the troupe’s Las Vegas live shows in vivid 3-D and weaves them together with a simple, fairy-tale-like romance. For Adamson, 46, the appeal of the circus is simple and elemental. “It’s a combination of beauty and danger, ” he said. He and his crew, which on occasion included executive producer and 3-D innovator James Cameron, used as many as 11 camera rigs at once.