I Want To Go Home (1989)
Directed by Alain Resnais · Cinematography by Charles Van Damme
100 min61 frames
Comedy
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What is I Want To Go Home about?
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
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Sampled across 61 frames, the coverage of I Want To Go Home leans on medium shots (52% of the sample) and wide compositions (25%). Cinematographer Charles Van Damme keeps 56% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Focus stays shallow in 59% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of I Want To Go Home?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of I Want To Go Home (1989) are #312c29, #d5d3cb, #59544f, #0e0c0b, #8a7a69, #544b3a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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