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Mortal Transfer (2001)

Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix · Cinematography by Benoît Delhomme

122 min58 frames

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What is Mortal Transfer about?

Michel, a psycho-analyst, falls asleep while listening to his patient Olga, a kleptomaniac and a sexual pervert, tell him how she likes her husband beating her. When he wakes up, he finds Olga having been choked to death. He now has to deal with a body, with Olga's rich husband who thinks she stole money from him, and with all his patients' insanity that haunts him.

Mortel Transfert is a 2001 thriller film written and directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jean-Pierre Gattégno. The music was provided by Reinhardt Wagner, the composer of Roselyne and the Lions. It was Beineix's final theatrical film before his death.

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What does the cinematography of Mortal Transfer look like?

Sampled across 58 frames, the coverage of Mortal Transfer leans on medium shots (41% of the sample) and close-ups (31%). Cinematographer Benoît Delhomme keeps 79% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 84% of the frames. Focus stays shallow in 72% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Mortal Transfer?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Mortal Transfer (2001) are #080d0d, #334b4e, #19282e, #30332e, #f7f7f7, #06122c — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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