The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Directed by Julian Schnabel · Cinematography by Janusz Kamiński
PG-13112 min63 frames
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What is The Diving Bell and the Butterfly about?
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
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What does the cinematography of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly look like?
Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly leans on close-ups (35% of the sample) and medium shots (27%). Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński keeps 57% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Focus stays shallow in 57% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) are #303330, #d0d3d0, #f5f5f4, #acb0ab, #0b0c0d, #73736e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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