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The Long Day Closes (1992)

Directed by Terence Davies · Cinematography by Michael Coulter

PG85 min58 frames

Drama

A magical story about a boy’s love affair with the music and movies of the 50s.

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What is The Long Day Closes about?

Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.

The Long Day Closes is a 1992 British drama film written and directed by Terence Davies and starring Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont and Ayes Owens. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.

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What does the cinematography of The Long Day Closes look like?

Sampled across 58 frames, the coverage of The Long Day Closes leans heavily on medium shots (76% of the sample). Cinematographer Michael Coulter keeps 62% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 50% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 78% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.

What is the color palette of The Long Day Closes?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Long Day Closes (1992) are #33302b, #121211, #52514b, #a59989, #d6d4ca, #6f6759 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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