Dunkirk (2017)
Directed by Christopher Nolan · Cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema
PG-13106 min50 frames
WarActionDrama
When 400,000 men couldn't get home, home came for them.
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What is Dunkirk about?
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
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What does the cinematography of Dunkirk look like?
Sampled across 49 frames, the coverage of Dunkirk leans on wide compositions (49% of the sample) and medium shots (31%). Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema keeps 78% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 78% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 57% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of Dunkirk?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Dunkirk (2017) are #2f3331, #51554d, #8f968e, #cfd4ce, #75776b, #aaa894 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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