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Mulholland Drive (2001) colour palette

Directed by David Lynch · Shot by Peter Deming

Mulholland Drive (2001), shot by Peter Deming, runs natural and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are red and orange. The single most common colour is near black (#120f0f), covering 12.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.509 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.318 — more saturated than 77% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.382 — brighter than 29% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Mulholland Drive page →

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