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Read My Lips (2001) colour palette

Directed by Jacques Audiard · Shot by Mathieu Vadepied

Read My Lips (2001), shot by Mathieu Vadepied, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 25 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2e2e30), covering 14.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.615 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.156 — more saturated than 10% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.402 — brighter than 41% of ranked films

Measured across 25 frames. See the frames on the Read My Lips page →

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