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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Directed by Ken Loach · Cinematography by Barry Ackroyd

127 min64 frames

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War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.

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What is The Wind That Shakes the Barley about?

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

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What does the cinematography of The Wind That Shakes the Barley look like?

Sampled across 62 frames, the coverage of The Wind That Shakes the Barley leans on medium shots (47% of the sample) and wide compositions (37%). Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd keeps 68% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 71% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 56% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of The Wind That Shakes the Barley?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) are #33342b, #525448, #8c8c73, #6e6e56, #484a39, #171612 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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