The Margin (1976)
Directed by Walerian Borowczyk · Cinematography by Bernard Daillencourt
88 min54 frames
Drama
The line between love and lechery.
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What is The Margin about?
A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.
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What does the cinematography of The Margin look like?
Across 54 sampled frames, The Margin builds its coverage from medium shots (37% of the sample), with close-ups (28%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Bernard Daillencourt keeps 39% of it in soft, naturalistic light. 50% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 69% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1970s.
What is the color palette of The Margin?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Margin (1976) are #312e2c, #151110, #535149, #d4d2cd, #cdb0a7, #503733 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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