sepia

Eighty-six years ago, when a kiddie fare cost 15 cents, my then-6-year-old grandmother watched the theater blink from sepia to vivid color splendor.

The light is too harshly angled and full of diodes, too precise, too careful and still somehow not careful enough, not surreal, sepia and tender enough.

You know she’s the central character because she’s the one who gets all the flashbacks, rendered in the customary sepia tones, each introduced by a sort of heartbeat motif on the soundtrack.

In order to get to France, we have to cruise through Mexico, which, in “Emilia Pérez,” is just France with a sepia filter.

There is a sepia effect from the red, brown and orange hues which can make for more dramatic views.