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Before Sunrise (1995) movie poster

Film Profile · BEFORE-SUNRISE

Before Sunrise

1995Drama / RomanceDrama1h 41m
Detections97,984
Night Frames38%
Dialogue WPM109
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-73% vs genre
16.7/100

Very Bright

Action Intensity-89% vs genre
6/100

Moderate

People Density-96% vs genre
2.4/100

Social

Indoor / Outdoor
75% indoor

Indoor · 74.8% indoors

Object Diversity
58/100

Medium

Pacing
1.0 cuts/min

Dynamic · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

Six axes overlaid against the average for this film's primary genre.

DARKNESS57ACTION60DIALOGUE53PEOPLE71VEHICLES6VISUAL60
Before SunriseDrama avg · 21 titles

THE ARC

Motion & brightness across the runtime

Hover to scrub. Spikes mark high-action sequences. Dips reveal quiet stretches.

Motion Intensity
Brightness
People
0:00 → 101m
02550751000m25m51m76m101m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

Three-act split — how the visual tone shifts from setup through climax.

ACT 1 · SETUP
●outdoor dominates46%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●night dominates39%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates40%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

The single most-intense minute and longest stretch of stillness.

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
9:39
motion 107/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 827.9s at 38:58
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

Frame-sampled palette — temperature, saturation, and how the look shifts across the runtime.

Temperaturewarm
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled4,848
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#46332F
49.3%
#584E4E
29.0%
#726C72
11.1%
#96939F
4.7%
#9B886D
3.1%
#D3CACC
2.8%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Empty scenes
#483C37
#5D5657
#7587A2
#817275
#BFBDCB
General scenes
#46332C
#5A4B47
#776A65
#9E9486
#DDD1C9
Night scenes
#443939
#472722
#584C4E
#807779
#C7BEC6
Outdoor scenes
#443D3D
#492B24
#5D5151
#797177
#B7AFB6
Romantic scenes
#463834
#565255
#746D6E
#A59A9C
#E5DCD6
Vibrant scenes
#714030
#751119
#467099
#A32A25
#C76649

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

The four most-present objects — full breakdown with categories in Deep Dive.

Chair13%
Poster1%
Alcohol bottle1%
Car6%
+ 6 more · person in 91% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

ON SCREEN

Cast at a glance

Top 3 actors by screen time, color-coded by dominant emotion.

JD
Julie Delpy
Céline
48.8m · happy
EH
Ethan Hawke
Jesse
33.3m · sad
EM
Erni Mangold
Palm Reader
1.2m · happy
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — Before Sunrise (1995)

Insights surfaced by machine analysis of every frame, audio track, and object.

  • Before Sunrise boasts an astonishing 40% faster-paced dialogue than 18 out of 20 Drama films, clocking in at 108.80 wpm.
  • 1,737 unique people spotted (91% of frames)
  • "time" is said 35 times — once every 2.9 minutes.
  • Julie Delpy is on screen for 49 of 101 minutes — 48% of the runtime.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 5 min 58 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • Only 19.5% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • The 5 most intense moments all happen within 8 seconds of each other.
  • At 134 BPM, the soundtrack rarely lets up — one of the faster-paced scores in the database.
  • 2,395 unique words spoken out of 10,994 total — a vocabulary richness of 21.8%.
  • AI detected 58 unique object types across 97,984 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 547 unique chairs spotted (13% of frames)
  • 167 unique cups spotted (6% of frames)
  • 142 unique bottles spotted (8% of frames)
  • 205 unique cars spotted (6% of frames)
  • 101 unique dining tables spotted (5% of frames)
  • 53 unique trains spotted (4% of frames)
  • 133 unique handbags spotted (3% of frames)
  • 89 unique ties spotted (3% of frames)
  • 61 unique wine glasses spotted (2% of frames)
  • 2,927 cars spotted (vehicle-heavy film)
  • Shot predominantly with warm tones

DIALOGUE

Words across the runtime

Volume and pace at a glance. Top vocabulary and per-act WPM in Deep Dive.

50% dialogue50% silence / score
10,994
total words
109
words / min
1 · 0.0%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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