I Want You (1998)
Directed by Michael Winterbottom · Cinematography by Slawomir Idziak
R87 min60 frames
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What she wants, she gets.
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What is I Want You about?
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
I Want You is a 1998 English crime film directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Eoin McNamee. It stars Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Labina Mitevska, and Luka Petrušić. The film centers on the obsessive infatuation two men have with the same mysterious woman. The film premiered at the 1998 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won a Special Mention Honor for cinematographer Sławomir Idziak.
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Across 60 sampled frames, I Want You builds its coverage from close-ups (35% of the sample), with medium shots (33%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Slawomir Idziak keeps 62% of it in soft, low-key light. 68% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 68% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of I Want You?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of I Want You (1998) are #07070d, #060a2d, #0202ff, #08174a, #000288, #2f2f2a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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