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Elena poster

Elena (2011) colour palette

Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev · Shot by Mikhail Krichman

Elena (2011), shot by Mikhail Krichman, runs heavily desaturated and balanced, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f3030), covering 15.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

balanced

0.029 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.162 — more saturated than 11% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.417 — brighter than 52% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the Elena page →

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