The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Directed by Paul Schrader · Cinematography by Dante Spinotti
R107 min63 frames
ThrillerDramaCrimeFantasy
A story of passionate obsession.
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What is The Comfort of Strangers about?
An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.
The Comfort of Strangers is a 1990 psychological thriller film directed by Paul Schrader, and starring Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, and Helen Mirren. The screenplay by Harold Pinter was adapted from the 1981 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan.
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What does the cinematography of The Comfort of Strangers look like?
Across 63 sampled frames, The Comfort of Strangers builds its coverage from medium shots (40% of the sample), with wide compositions (32%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Dante Spinotti keeps 52% of it in soft, low-key light. 68% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 56% of the frames.
What is the color palette of The Comfort of Strangers?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Comfort of Strangers (1990) are #322d29, #141312, #524f4a, #46342f, #261915, #938b86 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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