Lingua Franca (2019)
Directed by Isabel Sandoval · Cinematography by Isaac Banks
89 min64 frames
Drama
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Lingua Franca — official trailer
What is Lingua Franca about?
Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman.
Where can you watch Lingua Franca?
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Who stars in Lingua Franca?
Who made Lingua Franca?
Isabel SandovalDirector- Isaac BanksCinematography
- Carlo VelayoProducer
Jhett TolentinoProducer- Darlene MalimasProducer
What does the cinematography of Lingua Franca look like?
Sampled across 64 frames, the coverage of Lingua Franca leans on medium shots (52% of the sample) and close-ups (23%). Cinematographer Isaac Banks keeps 56% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 56% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 80% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Lingua Franca?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Lingua Franca (2019) are #32302f, #141312, #50514d, #d2cecb, #44372f, #b3b1af — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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