Dark Waters (2019)
Directed by Todd Haynes · Cinematography by Edward Lachman
PG-13126 min56 frames
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The truth has a man on the inside.
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What is Dark Waters about?
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan. The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals. It stars Mark Ruffalo as Bilott, along with Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman.
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What does the cinematography of Dark Waters look like?
Across 51 sampled frames, Dark Waters builds its coverage from wide compositions (45% of the sample), with medium shots (33%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Edward Lachman keeps 59% of it in soft, low-key light. 51% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 57% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Dark Waters?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Dark Waters (2019) are #2d332d, #12130f, #0f2a2d, #4f4e37, #354f4c, #2c2a16 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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