Palo Alto (2013)
Directed by Gia Coppola · Cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw
R100 min65 frames
Drama
In every city some seek love, some look for trouble, others look for both.
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What is Palo Alto about?
A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.
Palo Alto is a 2013 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Gia Coppola, based on the 2010 short story collection by James Franco. The film stars Franco alongside Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, Zoe Levin, Chris Messina, Keegan Allen, and Val Kilmer, and features Margaret Qualley in her film debut. It concerns a group of disaffected teenagers in a California suburb dealing with lust, boredom, and self-destruction. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2013, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on May 9, 2014, by Tribeca Film.
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What does the cinematography of Palo Alto look like?
Across 63 sampled frames, Palo Alto builds its coverage from medium shots (48% of the sample), with close-ups (24%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw keeps 48% of it in soft, low-key light. 48% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Focus stays shallow in 73% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Palo Alto?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Palo Alto (2013) are #322f2e, #534f4b, #151515, #8e7a6d, #4a332d, #221917 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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