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The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) colour palette

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami · Shot by Mahmoud Kalari

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), shot by Mahmoud Kalari, runs muted and warm, measured across 49 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is orange (#cdb592), covering 5.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.417 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.259 — more saturated than 54% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.469 — brighter than 85% of ranked films

Measured across 49 frames. See the frames on the The Wind Will Carry Us page →

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