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On War (2008) colour palette

Directed by Bertrand Bonello · Shot by Josée Deshaies

On War (2008), shot by Josée Deshaies, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are green and orange. The single most common colour is dark grey (#31322d), covering 12.9% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.469 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.16 — more saturated than 11% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.406 — brighter than 44% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the On War page →

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