The Holdovers (2023)
Directed by Alexander Payne · Cinematography by Eigil Bryld
R133 min64 frames
ComedyDrama
Discomfort and joy.
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A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa in his film debut. Set in 1970, it tells the story of a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students who have nowhere to go during the school's Christmas holiday break. Filming took place from January to March 2022 in Massachusetts. The Holdovers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023.
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Across 64 sampled frames, The Holdovers builds its coverage from medium shots (45% of the sample), with wide compositions (23%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Eigil Bryld keeps 55% of it in soft, naturalistic light. 42% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 63% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Holdovers (2023) are #33312f, #50514f, #d5d4d0, #4b3930, #89786b, #171616 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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