Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

Directed by Peter Chelsom · Cinematography by Kolja Brandt

R114 min135 frames

AdventureDramaComedy

Sometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost.

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What is Hector and the Search for Happiness about?

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

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Across 134 sampled frames, medium shots dominate the coverage of Hector and the Search for Happiness (73% of the sample). Cinematographer Kolja Brandt keeps 59% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Focus stays shallow in 85% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) are #33302e, #131211, #f3f3f2, #d5d3cf, #53504a, #51493a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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