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Life Is Sweet (1990) colour palette

Directed by Mike Leigh · Shot by Dick Pope

Life Is Sweet (1990), shot by Dick Pope, runs muted and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#312d2c), covering 6.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits bright.

Warmth

warm

0.544 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.256 — more saturated than 52% of ranked films

Luminance

bright

0.536 — brighter than 98% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Life Is Sweet page →

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