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The Secret Of Roan Inish (1994)

Directed by John Sayles · Cinematography by Haskell Wexler

PG103 min65 frames

AdventureFantasyFamilyDrama

Between land and sea there is a place where myths are real.

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What is The Secret Of Roan Inish about?

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.

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Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of The Secret Of Roan Inish leans on medium shots (38% of the sample) and wide compositions (27%). Cinematographer Haskell Wexler keeps 60% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 48% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 71% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Secret Of Roan Inish (1994) are #322d2e, #2e354c, #504b4b, #89756e, #51566d, #15162a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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