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Arielle Dombasle

Arielle Dombasle

3 films · 167 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19832002

Born 27 April 1953 · Norwich, Connecticut, USA

Arielle Dombasle is a French-American singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa (1995). She is best known to American audiences for her appearances on Miami Vice and the 1984 miniseries Lace. She has released eight singles between 1978 and 2011 and seven albums.

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Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 167 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19832002

  • Knight of the Legion of Honour

How their films are shot

Measured across 167 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Arielle takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 58% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Arielle takes.

Time of day

Day58%
Night32%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural55%
Low key27%
High key16%

Shot size

Medium50%
Closeup18%
Wide15%
Fullbody11%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
High angle12%

Mood

Neutral79%
Lonely10%
Tense7%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 167 frames from Arielle Dombasle's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.