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The Tenant (1976) colour palette

Directed by Roman Polanski · Shot by Sven Nykvist

The Tenant (1976), shot by Sven Nykvist, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33302c), covering 12.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.738 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.195 — more saturated than 23% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.39 — brighter than 33% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the The Tenant page →

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