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Keep Your Right Up (1987)

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · Cinematography by Caroline Champetier

82 min64 frames

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Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: establishing — The open sky contains thin white clouds and the bright orb of the sun. A long, thin linear…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: fullbody — A man in a grey suit lies prone on a carpeted floor. Sunlight from a window illuminates part of…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: medium — A stone staircase with decorative brick inserts is framed from above. A man and a woman stand…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: medium — An interior view of an airport terminal with a large window overlooking the tarmac. A woman in a…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: medium — Two men sit at a professional audio mixing console in a dark, sound-dampened room. The man on the…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: medium — A group of people lies close together against a weathered green concrete wall. The individuals…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: establishing — A clear blue sky contains several white cumulus clouds distributed across the frame. Sunlight…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: closeup — A dark human hand extends into the frame against a blurred green background. The background…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: medium — An interior airport terminal window looks out onto a concrete tarmac with airplanes. A woman in a…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: establishing — A view through a darkened window frame shows a clouded daytime sky. Part of a building facade…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: wide — A rural dirt path winds through a dense tunnel of mature green trees. Two men are working or standing…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: closeup — A man wearing a cycling cap rests his chin on his hand. The background is composed of out-of-focus…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: closeup — A dark, dimly lit environment obscures architectural details and surrounding space. The subject…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: medium — A man stands in front of a yellow wall adorned with automotive memorabilia. Vintage automobiles are…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: establishing — A top-down view shows the interior of a diner with tables arranged below. Several blurred…Keep Your Right Up (1987) movie still: medium — An interior space with a table sits in near darkness. A person sits silhouetted against an open…
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What is Keep Your Right Up about?

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.

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What does the cinematography of Keep Your Right Up look like?

Across 64 sampled frames, Keep Your Right Up builds its coverage from medium shots (38% of the sample), with close-ups (30%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Caroline Champetier keeps 59% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 66% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Keep Your Right Up?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Keep Your Right Up (1987) are #2f2f2b, #50514c, #8e918d, #d2d1cb, #f2f3f1, #72716c — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

  • #2f2f2b
  • #50514c
  • #8e918d
  • #d2d1cb
  • #f2f3f1
  • #72716c

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