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Un Flic (1972) colour palette

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville · Shot by Walter Wottitz

Un Flic (1972), shot by Walter Wottitz, runs natural and strongly cool, measured across 55 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are blue and cyan. The single most common colour is deep blue (#08172a), covering 5.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly cool

-0.684 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.309 — more saturated than 74% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.394 — brighter than 35% of ranked films

Measured across 55 frames. See the frames on the Un Flic page →

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