Last Year at Marienbad (1961) colour palette

Directed by Alain Resnais · Shot by Sacha Vierny

#040404near black · 16.4%
#2f2f2fdark grey · 15.8%
#8e8e8emid grey · 15.2%
#6c6c6cmid grey · 14.5%
#f8f8f8near white · 10.3%
#484848dark grey · 10.3%

Last Year at Marienbad (1961), shot by Sacha Vierny, is monochrome: across 33 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#040404), covering 16.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.435 — brighter than 65% of ranked films

Measured across 33 frames. See the frames on the Last Year at Marienbad page →

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1944 · Billy Wilder

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1950 · Billy Wilder

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1957 · Ingmar Bergman

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1962 · Robert Mulligan

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1941 · John Huston

The Killing

1956 · Stanley Kubrick

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