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Dating Amber

Directed by David Freyne · Cinematography by Ruairí O'Brien

92 min64 frames

ComedyDramaRomance

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Dating Amber movie still: medium — An indoor school corridor features teal walls and windows with reinforced wire glass. A student eats a sandwich…Dating Amber movie still: medium — A tan brick wall marked with casual graffiti serves as a neutral backdrop. Two teenagers in school uniforms stand…Dating Amber movie still: medium — Inside a car, a young woman steers the wheel while a man sits beside her. Outside the driver's window, a house…Dating Amber movie still: medium — A family sits around a wooden table in a modest suburban home with dated decor. Two parents and their two sons…Dating Amber movie still: medium — Two teenagers in school uniforms lie flat on a patch of lush green grass. They are positioned side by side with…Dating Amber movie still: medium — A person stands in a park area with lush green trees in the background. The individual wears a mustard yellow…Dating Amber movie still: fullbody — Two women walk through a foggy, dark grass field at dusk. The sky has a faint purple and blue glow behind the…Dating Amber movie still: closeup — A pair of hands holds a double-frame photo booth strip against a green background. The photograph shows a young…Dating Amber movie still: medium — An outdoor playground features a weathered blue metal horizontal bar against a bright sky. An older man in a…Dating Amber movie still: medium — A dimly lit stairwell features a dark red wall covered in layers of posters. Two young women stand close together…Dating Amber movie still: medium — A dimly lit room with a window providing backlight through the frame. Two women stand facing each other in the…Dating Amber movie still: wide — A rural asphalt road cuts through a green, grassy landscape with rolling hills. Two teenage boys ride bicycles in…Dating Amber movie still: medium — A person lies on a textured, ochre-colored quilt. They rest a rectangular box of cookies against their chest…Dating Amber movie still: establishing — A vast, rolling green meadow stretches toward a distant tree line under heavy clouds. Sunbeams penetrate…Dating Amber movie still: fullbody — A teenage boy lies flat on his back on a bed covered in drawings. The bedding is blue and several papers with…Dating Amber movie still: medium — A group of six teenage boys in school uniforms congregate on and around steps outside a brick building. One boy…
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What is Dating Amber about?

Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. The plan seems solid, but as their arrangement begins to fall apart, Eddie’s denial gets deeper as Amber realizes that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.

Dating Amber is a 2020 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by David Freyne. The film features two closeted teenagers in 1990s Ireland who decide to start a fake heterosexual relationship to hide their actual sexualities. The film was produced with assistance from Fís Éireann - Screen Ireland, RTÉ, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BeTV Belgium and BNP Paribas Fortis Film Fund (France). The film was distributed in Ireland through Wildcard.

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What does the cinematography of Dating Amber look like?

Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of Dating Amber leans on medium shots (54% of the sample) and wide compositions (19%). Cinematographer Ruairí O'Brien keeps 62% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 60% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 62% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Dating Amber?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Dating Amber are #32332f, #4e524f, #d6d4cc, #a62d2e, #7a878b, #90796c — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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