The Grotto (2022)
Directed by Joanna Gleason · Cinematography by Gabe Mayhan
96 min71 frames
DramaComedy
What you don't know can heal you.
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What is The Grotto about?
When her fiancé dies unexpectedly and she loses her job, 40-something music manager Alice Kendall inherits half ownership of The Grotto, a struggling nightclub in the California desert where she discovers eccentric performers and a heartbreaking secret.
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What does the cinematography of The Grotto look like?
Across 57 sampled frames, medium shots dominate the coverage of The Grotto (72% of the sample). Cinematographer Gabe Mayhan keeps 67% of it in soft, low-key light. 68% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Focus stays shallow in 81% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of The Grotto?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Grotto (2022) are #2f302f, #101011, #f6f7f7, #504e4a, #8d8e8b, #2c3847 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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