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We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) colour palette

Directed by Lynne Ramsay · Shot by Seamus McGarvey

We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011), shot by Seamus McGarvey, runs natural 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 (#32312f), covering 9.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.644 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.309 — more saturated than 74% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.47 — brighter than 86% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the We Need To Talk About Kevin page →

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