Movie colour palettes

Beau Travail poster

Beau Travail (1999) colour palette

Directed by Claire Denis · Shot by Agnès Godard

Beau Travail (1999), shot by Agnès Godard, runs muted and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is near black (#0b0b0a), covering 7.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.273 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.24 — more saturated than 45% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.466 — brighter than 84% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Beau Travail page →

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