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The Comfort of Strangers (1990) colour palette

Directed by Paul Schrader · Shot by Dante Spinotti

The Comfort of Strangers (1990), shot by Dante Spinotti, 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 (#322d29), covering 10.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.591 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.233 — more saturated than 41% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.386 — brighter than 30% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the The Comfort of Strangers page →

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