Mute (2018)

Directed by Duncan Jones · Cinematography by Gary Shaw

TV-MA126 min59 frames

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What is Mute about?

A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.

Mute is a 2018 tech-noir film directed by Duncan Jones, who co-wrote the script with Michael Robert Johnson. A follow-up to his 2009 film Moon, it stars Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Robert Sheehan, Noel Clarke, Florence Kasumba, and Dominic Monaghan, revolving around a mute bartender (Skarsgård) searching for the love of his life who has mysteriously disappeared. A third installment, a graphic novel called Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future, was released in 2020.

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Where can you watch Mute?

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What does the cinematography of Mute look like?

Sampled across 59 frames, the coverage of Mute leans on medium shots (44% of the sample) and wide compositions (27%). Cinematographer Gary Shaw keeps 69% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 78% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 64% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Mute?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Mute (2018) are #2c2c2a, #0f1414, #f4f4f1, #102c2e, #344c50, #52514b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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