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Dogville (2003) colour palette

Directed by Lars von Trier · Shot by Anthony Dod Mantle

Dogville (2003), shot by Anthony Dod Mantle, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#322e2d), covering 16.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.721 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.175 — more saturated than 15% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.395 — brighter than 37% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Dogville page →

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