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Mélanie Doutey

Mélanie Doutey

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20212024

Born 22 November 1978 · Paris, France

Mélanie Doutey is a French actress.

She is the daughter of filmmaker Alain Doutey and actress Arielle Séménoff. She appeared in Claude Chabrol's La Fleur du Mal and El Lobo, the true story of a mole within the Basque separatist group ETA. She also made a cameo in singer Calogero's video for En Apesanteur.

In 2006, she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Il ne faut jurer de rien!, a cinematographic adaptation of an Alfred de Musset play.

Her scene with Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche, directed by Jan Kounen was cut from the final version of Les Infidèles (2011 film), but later appeared on some DVD versions.

From 2002 to 2013, Doutey was in

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20212024

  • Prix Suzanne Bianchetti2003

How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mélanie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Mélanie takes.

Time of day

Day49%
Night46%

Lighting

Natural42%
Low key41%
Silhouette9%
High key6%

Shot size

Medium39%
Wide28%
Closeup21%
Establishing10%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
High angle8%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral61%
Tense21%
Lonely10%
Ominous4%

Films in the library

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

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Mélanie Doutey's 2 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.